Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2015, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (3): 232-239.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.10083758.2015.03.003

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Self-awareness in Technological Mediation ExperienceA Phenomenological Critique of Ihdes Philosophy of Technology

WU Ning-ning   

  1. (Department of Philosophy,Peking University, Beijing 100871, China)
  • Received:2015-06-12 Revised:2015-06-12 Online:2015-05-25 Published:2015-06-12
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Abstract: The core of technological mediation theory is to characterize the self-awareness in technological mediation experience. The American philosopher Don Ihde elaborates on this issue by the concept “quasi-transparency”, whose basic structure is “magnification/reduction”, via which he emphasizes materiality and sensorial body. However the self-awareness in Ihdes theory is a reflexive awareness as the pattern of object-given, which fails to explain the self-awareness in pre-reflective experience. Based on the concept of practical intentionality in Merleau-Pontys phenomenology of body, technological mediation as such means a particular norm of practical tasks, and self-awareness refers to the consciousness of the relationship between the subject and the norm-based technology.

Key words: technological mediation, self-awareness, quasi-transparency, Don Ihde, phenomenology of technology

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