This essay offers an explanation of the metaphysics of technology. It analyzes the principal
characteristics of technology: rationality, materiality, accumulation, process, and method …

What is technology? Why does it have such power in our lives? Why does it seemingly
progress of its own accord, and without regard to social or environmental well-being? The …

The purpose of this paper is to show that the prevailing discourse on technology is a
formidable obstacle to an empowering relation with technologies. It aims to overcome this …

What Heidegger called “the question of technology” has a peculiar status in the academy
today. After World War II, the humanities and social sciences were swept by a wave of …

The philosophy of technology must deal with a phenomenon which will likely decide the
survival of the human race. An erroneous judgment on the nature of technology could have …

No doubt human nature remains the same as always, but the means at our disposal are now
much more powerful than in the past. Quantity has changed into quality as innovations alter …

When Heidegger remarked, close to the beginning of his famous essay,“The Question
concerning Technology,” 1 that “the essence of technology is by no means anything …

his idea that we Uve in an ontologically enframed world is much less metaphysical and
totalizing than the much more familiar and acceptable idea that we are living in the so …

I■ N this paper I wish to describe and to clarify Heidegger's analysis of technology. In Sein
und Heideg ger says that a genuinely phenomenological description does not merely show …

A central issue in the philosophy of technology concerns the relationship between
technology and the conditions under which technology develops. Traditionally, two main …