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Technical Artifacts and Human Being: A Reflection on Verbeek’s Ideas

Jalilian, Mohammad Sobhan | 2018

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 50753 (42)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Philosophy of Science
  6. Advisor(s): Akbari Takhtameshlou, Javad
  7. Abstract:
  8. 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 and action. From Verbeek’s point of view, technology is not a mere tool, but a mediator which actively shapes the human-world relationship. This thesis is allocated to reflect on Verbeek’s ideas and will examine the implications of his theory for ethics and philosophy of science. In philosophy of science, with the help of Verbeek’s ideas, mediation of technology in scientific praxis has been paid attention, and the cognitive and non-cognitive dimensions of technology have been discussed. In ethics, after explaining the idea of “moralizing technology”, Verbeek’s arguments for attributing the moral agency to technical artifacts have been criticized
  9. Keywords:
  10. Philosophy of Science ; Empirical Turn ; Post-Phenomenology ; Actor-Network Theory ; Technology Mediation ; Moral Agency

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