Bernhard Irrgang: Critics of Technological Lifeworld: Collection of Philosophical Essays (Dresden Philosophy of Technology Studies / Dresdner Studien zur Philosophie der Technologie)

We live in a technologically mediated lifeworld and culture. Technologies either magnify or amplify human experiences. They can change the ways we live. Technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different cultures. German phenomenologist philosopher Bernhard Irrgang for than 2 decades engaging with the questions, what role does technology play in everyday human experience? How do technological artefacts affect people''s existence and their relations with the world? And how do instruments, devices and apparatuses produce and transform human knowledge? Along with Albert Bo. Read more... Abstract: We live in a technologically mediated lifeworld and culture. Technologies either magnify or amplify human experiences. They can change the ways we live. Technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different cultures. German phenomenologist philosopher Bernhard Irrgang for than 2 decades engaging with the questions, what role does technology play in everyday human experience? How do technological artefacts affect people''s existence and their relations with the world? And how do instruments, devices and apparatuses produce and transform human knowledge? Along with Albert Bo Content: Cover Preface Acknowledgments Contents Paradigmatic Shifts in the Contemporary philosophy of technologies: Culture of technological reflections (Arun Kumar Tripathi) I. Introduction to contemporary philosophy of technologies II. Technics is Embodied and Hermeneutics: New Models III. Expanding Phenomenology of Technology Cited and Non-cited References Social and Ethical Aspects of Biotechnological Practice (Bernhard Irrgang) I. Structuring of Scientific -- Technological Innovation II. Application of Biotechnology in medicine and Agriculture III. Concluding Remarks References. Technological Development and Social Progress (Bernhard Irrgang)I. Introduction II. Conceptions of the technical progress in the perspective of historical philosophy of the Enlightenment III. Theoretical concepts of technological development since the Industrial Revolution IV. Models of technological development V. Technical and social progress References Technology Transfer and Modernization: What Can Philosophers of technology Contribute? (Bernhard Irrgang) I. Technological Development as Modernization II. Culture and Technology Transfer. III. Technologization and cultural developmentIV. New Concepts of Technological Modernization V. Suitable technology and cultural identity in developing countries References Ethical Action in Robotics (Bernhard Irrgang) I. Introduction II. Perspectives of Ethical Acts III. Autonomous Robots IV. Decision Making V. Conclusion References Note Epistemology of Biotechnology (Bernhard Irrgang) I. Laboratory science as the constitution of a Research Practice II. From the Mendelgenetics to Synthetic Biology: Technologisation of a Research Practice. III. Methods and Technical Procedures of the Genetic Engineering: Technologisation of a Laboratory PracticeIV. Synthetic Life -- Perspectives towards Genetic Engineering as a Science of Construction of Organisms References Justified Trust in Technology (Bernhard Irrgang) I. Trust in technology through the scientification of construction? II. Maintenance and technical security: institutional reason and foundation for trust in technology? III. Limits of the controllability with modern technology IV. Technology at the forefront V. The "revenge" of technology (Technological Revenge). VI. Risk and technical acceptanceVII. Innovation and routine: Technical trust due to experience References Postphenomenological Inquiry into Brain Research and Human-embodied Mind (Bernhard Irrgang) I. Naturalization under inclusion of the observer perspective in empirical sciences II. The observer and perspective: A new paradigm for neurophilosophy III. Postphenomenological analyses of human-embodied mind IV. The central meaning of different forms of memory V. Observer-centered interdisciplinary neuro-philosophy References Visions of Technology (Bernhard Irrgang). We live in a technologically mediated lifeworld and culture. Technologies either magnify or amplify human experiences. They can change the ways we live. Technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different cultures. German phenomenologist philosopher Bernhard Irrgang for than 2 decades engaging with the questions, what role does technology play in everyday human experience? How do technological artefacts affect people's existence and their relations with the world? And how do instruments, devices and apparatuses produce and transform human knowledge? Along with Albert Borgmann, Larry Hickman, Don Ihde, Carl Mitcham, Hans Poser, Peter-Paul Verbeek, Walther Zimmerli, contemporary German philosopher of technology Bernhard Irrgang provides a useful vocabulary for understanding the ways we relate to technology and to the world through technologies in different cultures.