The Analysis On Phenomenology Technology Philosophy Thoughts Of Don Ihde

With the processes of the modern science and technology ,the scientists pay much attention to the science and technology. The philosophers of our country also explore and research science and technology philosophy positively. Especially in the last decades in the twentieth century, the people's attention turns towards the technology philosophy. The philosophers of our country also research technology philosophy in ontology, epistemology and methodology aspects. But because of the research of the science philosophy, especially the technology philosophy is in the early stage in our country, it dose not form its own philosophy theory system. So much of the research is just the introduction and exploration at basic level. It is a noticeable reason which results from the less communication of domestic philosophy and foreign philosophy. It also has less introductions and researches on the foreign new thoughts. Don Ihde is a famous modern technology philosopher, there is too little research about him in our country. So it is necessary to give a simple introduction about his thoughts to the people.Don Ihde is an American modern famous distinguished philosopher, he has his own special understandings of technology philosophy and phenomenology. He has a big effect on modern science and technology philosophy and edits ten works and hundreds of papers, the main works include"technology and practice""experimental phenomenology""technology and living world""tool realism: the interface of science philosophy and technology""the introduction to technology philosophy"and so on. Because his research includes the technology philosophy and phenomenology, so some professors call his theory post-phenomenology. According to the features of the combination of phenomenology and technology philosophy, other professors call his theory phenomenology technology philosophy. The thoughts of Don Ihde mainly come from phenomenology and American pragmatics, his thoughts is mainly affected by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty from the phenomenology angle and by Dewey pragmatics from the pragmatics angle. Don Ihde concerns phenomenology in the early stage, and he acknowledges that he is a phenomenologist in early stage. The living surrounding f Don Ihde also has a big effect on the combination of the pragmatics and phenomenology. The U.S.A. is the birthplace of the pragmatics, all the American thoughts are effected by the pragmatics more or less. It is the tradition of the American thoughts pragmatics that provides the thoughts of Don Ihde.From the view of the development of phenomenology technology philosophy thoughts, firstly, he combines the pragmatics with the phenomenology, secondly, he transfers the phenomenology of pragmatics into the post-phenomenology area. Finally he completes his philosophy system through the experimentalism.The phenomenology technology philosophy of Don Ihde mainly includes four parts: the technology phenomenology, the tool realism, the concept of technology and culture, cyberspace and the embodiment phenomenology. The basic relationship of the human being and technology is the main content of Don Ihde's technology phenomenology, Don Ihde thinks there are four relations between the human being and technology. They are embodiment relation, explanation realism, background relation and other people relation. Through the explanation of the relations, Don Ihde conform the functions of the tool between the human being and the world. The tool realism of Don Ihde mainly concerns the embodiment of the technology. Don Ihde thinks the technology is ignored in early times, the people do not research technology in thoughts, but with the development of the people's thoughts, the people begin to realize that the technology should be noticed by thoughts when they observe the living world. Don Ihde wants the instrument or tool to be the interface of the combination of science philosophy and technology philosophy, so the edge of the science philosophy and the technology philosophy is obscure and finally disappears. Imagine technique is the key of the concept of the technology and culture. There is a close contact between imagine technique and explanation realism. The concept of the technology and culture of Don Ihde shows the mutual contact and mutual interaction. The transfer of the technology shows that it has a kind of adaptability among the different cultures and a kind of extensive force. Cyberspace appears to be a new area with the development of the electronic information net technique. Don Ihde pays much attention to it and gets new opinions from it.The thoughts of Don Ihde has a big effect on the western philosophy, especially the technology philosophy, he drives the technology philosophy forward and advances the transfer of experimentalism of technology philosophy, he put the research points to the daily life, we regard the technology not only at metaphysics level but also at the experiment level.