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Using Words and Things - Language and Philosophy of Technology (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,280
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Using Words and Things - Language and Philosophy of Technology (Paperback): Mark Coeckelbergh

Using Words and Things - Language and Philosophy of Technology (Paperback)

Mark Coeckelbergh

Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

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This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology-that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts not mere things, but crucially and significantly shape what we perceive, do, and are-is re-thought in a way that accounts for the role of language in human technological experiences and practices. Engaging with work by Wittgenstein, Heidegger, McLuhan, Searle, Ihde, Latour, Ricoeur, and many others, the author critically responds to, and constructs a synthesis of, three "extreme", idealtype, untenable positions: (1) only humans speak and neither language nor technologies speak, (2) only language speaks and neither humans nor technologies speak, and (3) only technology speaks and neither humans nor language speak. The construction of this synthesis goes hand in hand with a narrative about subjects and objects that become entangled and constitute one another. Using Words and Things thus draws in central discussions from other subdisciplines in philosophy, such as philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics, to offer an original theory of the relationship between language and (philosophy of) technology centered on use, performance, and narrative, and taking a transcendental turn.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Release date: June 2020
First published: 2017
Authors: Mark Coeckelbergh
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-59502-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN: 0-367-59502-8
Barcode: 9780367595029

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