Don Ihde
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| Born | 1934 Hope, Kansas |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
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Hermeneutic phenomenology (Postphenomenology) |
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Philosophy of science, philosophy of technology |
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Experimental phenomenology |
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Don Ihde (/dɑːn aɪd/; born 1934) is an American philosopher of science and technology, and a postphenomenologist. In 1979 he wrote what is often identified as the first North American work on philosophy of technology,Technics and Praxis. Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 2013 Ihde received the Golden Eurydice Award. Ihde is the author of twenty-two original books and the editor of many others. Recent examples include Acoustic Technics (2015);Husserl's Missing Technologies (2016);Embodied Technics (2010); Heidegger's Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives (2010); Postphenomenology and Technoscience (Chinese 2008/English 2009) also in Spanish, Hebrew and forthcoming Portuguese; Chasing Technoscience (2003), edited with Evan Selinger; Bodies in Technology (2001); Expanding Hermeneutics: Visualism in Science (1998); and Postphenomenology (1993). Ihde lectures and gives seminars internationally and some of his books and articles have appeared in a dozen languages.
Ihde's Bodies in Technology spells out the original exploration of the ways cyberspace affects the human experience. The book is useful to the research scholars who are exploring the role of bodies in the VR technologies. The book is the study of embodiment in cyberspace, an ideal book also related to human–computer interaction (HCI); Ihde explores the meaning of bodies in technology.
Don Ihde entirely rejects Cartesian dualism and Ihde further "does not believe we human beings can exist in disembodied form." Even to have an out of body experience is to have an implicit 'here-body' from which we experience an 'object-body' over there. Ihde believes in having 'I am my body.' But its outlines are ambiguous and 'my experience' can reach through other spatialitities. Don Ihde has further explored these arguments in his book Bodies in Technology
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