A Study On The Cultural Turn Of Philosophy Of Technology

Technical philosophy takes technology as the research object, is a knowledge system that adopt philosophical analysis on technology. In 1877 the Technical Philosophy Outline of German technological philosopher Karp (E.K app) published are generally considered as the symbol of the philosophy of technology formal establishment. Since its establishment, technical philosophy experienced different development stages, scholars for the core issue of technical philosophy view each are not identical, and also have different opinions on the philosophy of technology turn to."Turn" of technical philosophy is change the themes and ideas of original philosophy of technology, realizing the transformation of research methods and research emphasis. Carding and analysis the philosophy of technology culture turn and cultural turn before, we can see the development of technical philosophy roughly route. The empirical turn of technical philosophy, technical philosophy ethical turn, technical philosophy positivism steering and technical philosophy culture turn, representing the different technical philosophy research paradigm, and different research focuses among them, and no strict boundaries.Exploring the root of the problem that cultural turn of technical philosophy in the aspect of history of technology and technical and social, as the immanent cause and external reason, for declare publicly make clear to all the technical philosophy research history and future more clearly. After culture turn the technical philosophy is a generalized philosophy of culture technology, and its fundamental marks is the humanistic understanding on philosophy of technology. The cultural turn of technical philosophy demonstrate that the development degree of the traditional philosophy of technology must spill itself subculture and turn to the technical culture. The significance of technical philosophy cultural turn for technology itself can make technology more humanization and standardization. Meanwhile, make the traditional philosophy of technology towards a new philosophy of technology that more caring humanity, provide a new paradigm, vision and path to the development of the new philosophy of technology, and also make the technical philosophy research refinement and embodiment.Although starting late, technology philosophy in China is just developing rapidly, especially since nearly thirty years. Papers and books about technology culture increases rapidly, the academic conference passion flesh and technical philosophy researchers'interest turn. Through three research periodicals on philosophy of technology of the papers published by statistical analysis, and research interests of researchers in two research center of technical philosophy are validated by empirical research, found technical philosophy of culture research in China has professionally. Culture is a characterization of the soft power of national, technological progress without culture, exploring the philosophy of technology cultural turn, hoping to play the guiding function of technological philosophy to innovation culture construction. If can promote research and innovation of policy, and promote the communication and fusion between science and humanity, then can yet be regarded as its current value.