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Technology, especially in recent centuries, has changed human form of life. Case studies show that there is a mutual relationship between human being and technology; Human is a technological being and technology is also a social entity. Therefore, trying to develop a conceptual framework to describe the important role of technical artifacts in our life can be regarded as a legitimate philosophical concern. Peter Paul Verbeek is one of the contemporary philosophers who take this concern seriously. He, by using the doctrines of The Empirical Turn in the philosophy of technology, has developed a lexical system, called post-phenomenology, to describe the role of Technology in human’s perception... 

The aim of this thesis is to provide a correct explanation of technological determinism. According to this theory, technology has changed our lifestyle and we have to adapt ourselves to it, which is obvious to us even without knowing about this theory. But is this really the essence of technology? Or does the user community act like this when faced with technology? This is the question that we seek to answer in this thesis. For this purpose, we first express different readings of technological determinism, and some theories aligned and not aligned with it. Then we address the dual nature of technology and show that "physical structure" and "the function intended by the designer" together...