A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

Notes

1. An extensive history and comparison of hermeneutics may be found in P. Riceour, The Conflict of Interpretations (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1974). Also see D. Ihde, Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1998).

2. See S. R. Fischer, A History of Writing (London: Reaktion Books, 2005).

3. R. Rorty (ed.), The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Methodology (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1967). Unnoticed by most analytic philosophers, however, was the similar turn by J. Derrida, De la Grammatology (1974), later Of Grammatology, trans. G. C. Spivak (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976).

4. Derrida’s notion of the trace and the inscription takes shape in Of Grammatology and is also similarly noted with respect to laboratory experiments interpreted as inscriptions or visualizations by B. Latour, Science in Action (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987). Also see Don Ihde’s use of hermeneutic relations in a similar instrumental context in Technology and the Lifeworld (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1990).

5. E. Tenner, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).

6. W. Bijker, Of Bicycles, Bakelites and Bulbs (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995).

7. F. Kittler, F., Grammaphone, Film and Typewriter (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1992).