Study On Don Ihde’s View Of Technology And Culture

Don×Ihde is one of the contemporary famous American philosophers, His thought occupies an important place in the philosophy of technology. His technical culture which thought as an important part of his technology philosophy, reflecting the contemporary philosophy of technology culture. His works and thoughts in the domestic research has been unfolding. This article selects the technical concept of the content of the part and its associated as objects of study. In order to have a complete understanding of Don Ihde’s technology philosophy.His technology philosophy mainly comes from phenomenology and pragmatism. In the aspect of Phenomenology, Ihde mainly influences by phenomenologist such as Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. In the aspect of pragmatism, Ihde mainly influences by Dewey’s thoughts. Ihde was a phenomenon at early, Mainly engaged in the study of phenomenology. Later under the influence of pragmatism, he added it to the idea of phenomenology. Then he realized the combination of the phenomenology and pragmatism. His phenomenology of technology philosophy is mainly composed by four parts phenomenology, tool realism, virtual space and reflect the phenomenology and cultural viewpoint. Cultural viewpoint of technology through static and dynamic two levels can be divided into four aspects. The static level including cultural embeddedness. Dynamic level including two parts: multicultural perspective and culture the transferability. Eventually get sublimation in imaging technologies. Technology of cultural embedding has two parts content: one is the same technology in different cultural different ways, and the other is culture of the embedded technology of continuum. It mainly talks about the influence of culture on technology; Multicultural understanding that his technology cultural view is an open system. It makes up of many forms of technology culture. Technology culture transferability illustrates the tool as the main content of technology transfer among different cultures have different degree of adaptation. Imaging techniques, which is the core of the technical concept. It showed a very different epistemology.Ihde’s technology philosophy inside a lot of new ideas, and it plays a very important reference for our country’s study of the development of philosophy of technology. This is to be the focus of attention of Chinese scholars in the philosophy of technology in the future. His technology culture thoughts reflected in the diversity of research perspectives, and comparative research methods. These are all we have to learn for the philosophy of technology research in China and even all the scholars to study philosophy research.