Beyond Instrumentalism: Exploring the Affordance Construal of Technology in Heidegger

• Main Author: Lagdameo, Federico Jose
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: Heidegger; philosophy of technology; affordance theory; postphenomenology; critical constructivism; instrumentalism; Arts and Humanities; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/88; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/philo-faculty-pubs/article/1087/viewcontent/lagdameo_april2023.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Current philosophies of technology derived from and inspired by Heidegger’s—exemplified by Postphenomenology and Critical Constructivism—have favored a focus on technological design issues; succumbing consequently; to an instrumental view of technology. This favored focus had contributed to an obliv...