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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Robert Rosenberger

PART 1: FROM PHENOMENOLOGY TO POSTPHENOMENOLOGY

1. Auditory Phenomenology

2. The Multistability of Perception

3. What Pragmatism Adds to Phenomenology

4. What Phenomenology Adds to Pragmatism

5. What Is Postphenomenology?

PART 2: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY

6. Human-Technology Relations

7. Auditory Technologies

8. The Critique of Heidegger

9. Multistability and Cultural Context

The Designer Fallacy

PART 3: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SCIENCE

The Critique of Husserl

Technology Leads Science

Epistemology Engines and the Camera Obscura

The Phenomenology of Scientific Imaging

Notes
Index

This critical reader brings together both essential as well as under-recognized writings from the work of Don Ihde, one of the most important contemporary thinkers on technology and human experience.

Don Ihde is one of the world's foremost thinkers on the place of technologies in our lives. Over the course of a long career, he has built a unique and useful perspective by expanding on phenomenological and American pragmatist philosophy and has developed wide-ranging insights and conceptual tools for describing the details of our experience across the various areas of human activity, including

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Don Ihde

American philosopher (–)

Don Ihde (;^[2] January 14, – January 17, ) was an American philosopher of science and technology.^[1] In he wrote what is often identified as the first North American work on philosophy of technology,^[3]Technics and Praxis.

Before his retirement, Ihde was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In Ihde received the Golden Eurydice Award.^[4]

Ihde was the author of over twenty original books and the editor of many others. He gave numerous lectures and seminars internationally, and some of his books and articles have appeared in a dozen languages.

Ihde died on January 17, , three days after his 90th birthday.^[5][6]

Major concepts and thought

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Postphenomenology

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Don Ihde uses the methodological tools of phenomenology to analyse technology, and specifically the relations between humans and technological artefacts.^[7] Rather than thinking about technology as an abstract category, postphenomenological analysis looks at actual artefacts and the way they interact with users.^[7] Technologies, according to this view, mediate our relationship to the world, influencing the way we see it, understand i