Coordinator Debate
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Why start at ‘Dasein’?
• “Zunächst und zumeist”:
The quest to start without assumptions makes
Heidegger examine how we live ‘first and
foremost’ and ‘most of the time’.
• Where else should we start?
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Being-in-the-world
‘Always already in the world’
-> ‘Being-in-the-world’
And by ‘world’ we don’t mean a physical space that we
can move around in. We rather mean something like
‘context’
NB. In “What We Talk About When
We Talk About Context”, Paul Dourish makes the distinction between
context as a representational (positivistic) and as an interactional
(phenomenological) problem
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The iconic example of a hammer
What makes a hammer a hammer?
Ein Ding / Thing?
No, Zeug / ‘Equipment’
”Equipment is a solicitation to act”
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The door handle
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An experiment!
Vorhandenheit -> Zuhandenheit
Present-at-hand -> Ready-to-hand
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The origin of science
Heidegger: Firstly and most of the time we are not
scientists. Science only starts when the equipment
breaks down.
Consequence: Technology precedes science. Both
historically and logically.
Don Ihde:
”All science is technoscience”
”No instruments, no science”
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Heidegger: Die Frage nach der Technik
Another iconic contribution to the philosophy of technology. Most often
as a punching bag.
Many criticize Heidegger’s attempt to talk about the ”Technik” in
singular.
But when connected to Sein und Zeit, one can see that Heidegger is
talking about a way to approach the world. Die Technik is the way in
which our present-day epoch discloses the world.
His thesis: Die Technik has replaced our previous relation to the world
with a technological (Vorhandenheit / Present-at-hand)
The world encounters us as Bestand (English: ”Reserve”). The river is
water power to be harvested, people are human ressources and
giraffes are assets in the Experience Economy.
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Merleau-Ponty: Embodiment
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And existentialism!
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