A Study On The Cultural Turn Of Philosophy Of Technology

In the 21st century, the development of the emerging technology triggers moreserious global social issues than before. The philosophy of technology, as areflection of the technology, also faces a huge challenge.Engineering Philosophy of Technology and Humanities Philosophy ofTechnology are the two traditional schools in the study of philosophy of technology.Engineering Philosophy of Technology focus on the development process oftechnology, it realizes the interpretation of the outside world by the wholedescription of the definition, principle, program and the use of technology.Humanities Philosophy of Technology focus on the social problems triggered bytechnology, it makes humanistic criticism of the technical consequences. In the studyof contemporary philosophy of technology, Dutch philosophy of technology formsits own mode on the basic of the fusion of Engineering Philosophy of Technologyand Humanities Philosophy of Technology, it focus on the interpretation oftechnology and technical culture and the research on standard.Along with the progress of technology of human society, there are empirical turn,pragmatical turn and ethical turn of the philosophy of technology in the 20th century.The empirical turn makes the attention back to the special technology from the blindhumanistic criticism, it shows the links between technology and its culturalbackground by using the research methods of phenomenology emphatically; thepragmatical turn eliminates the opposition of technical theory and practice in thetraditional technology, it emphasize unifying them in the rethinking of specifictechnical activities under the human cultural situation; the ethical turn focus on theproblem of the code of ethics of human, it suggests the man in the majorresponsibility in the technical activities.Making cultural analysis on the principal schools and turns, it shows that, thephilosophy analysis of technical issues need to build a cultural dimensions, and thecultural turn of contemporary philosophy of technology research has become a trend,it embodies the contemporary requirements of the study on the philosophy oftechnology.There are three kinds of power of the cultural turn of philosophy of technology.One is the development of the technology itself, it reflected in the history of thedevelopment of the technology; the other one is the development of the technical influence, it reflected in the history of technology and society; the third one is thescience and technology integration and the close relationship between philosophy ofscience and philosophy of technology, the cultural turn of the philosophy of sciencemakes the cultural turn of the philosophy of technology Influence and demonstration.All of the three kinds of power are related to the culture, it requires the philosophyof technology to establish the cultural dimension to solve the technical problems ofthe contemporary human society effectively.The cultural turn of philosophy of technology is generalized to the culture,involved of the subject, object and research paradigm of comprehensive cultural turn.The cultural turned philosophy of technology should meet the following mode: 1Subject realized the turn to "culture prospective type"; 2 Object realized the turn to“Technology﹢Technology—Culture﹢World in Technology—Culture”; 3Research paradigm realized the turn to“Rational description﹢Cultural Valuedescription”.