Abstract:

In his book What Things Do， Verbeek criticizes Heideggers research method of his later philosophy of technology， which is thought to be transcendental rather than empirical in that Heidegger fails to face artifacts themselves. It is a misinterpretation because Verbeek mistakes the possible conditions of transcendentalism for the essence， and views technology merely as artifacts. Heideggers phenomenological deconstruction of his later philosophy of technology is an empirical method of phenomenology instead of the one of Verbeeks naturalism. Studies on the philosophy of technology are supposed to transcend the debate of concreteness and abstractness as well as holism. Moreover， the research objects of later Heidegger and Verbeek should be integrated.

Key words: Peter-Paul Verbeek, Martin Heidegger, philosophy of teachnology, post-phenomenoloy, transcendentalism, possible condition