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Book Symposium on Don Ihde’s Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science

Northwestern University Press, 1998

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  1. “Interpersonal variations” occur when two or more persons interpret the same image differently.

  2. “Intrapersonal variation” occurs when the same person interprets the same image differently at different times.

  3. Ihde 1998, pp. 138–50. The original Erklären/Verstehen controversy has not disappeared but rather transferred to new issues (e.g., reasons vs. causes, methodological individualism; see Feest 2010).

  4. See, e.g., the 2009 “Philosophy of Technology” entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which announces that in the past 10–15 years, an “analytic” philosophy of technology has become “dominant,” replacing “humanities” philosophers of technology. This rising star is concerned not with “relations between technology and society” but with “technology itself,” which is “basically the practice of engineering”—something to be analyzed in terms of its “goals, concepts, and methods” and associated with “various themes from [analytic] philosophy” such as “the epistemological status of technological statements,” the “design process” in the engineer’s purely “instrumental” attempt to “realize ideas whose origin lies outside technology itself”…etc. It is hard to imagine a more thorough dismissal of every philosophy of technology inspired by “the hermeneutics of practice.”

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Friis, J.K.B.O., Hickman, L.A., Rosenberger, R. et al. Book Symposium on Don Ihde’s Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science . Philos. Technol. 25, 249–270 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-011-0060-5

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