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PHIL 3109 - Fall 2020 - Final Exam Questions
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Albert Borgmann ANS✔✔ Contemporary Philosopher of Technolog; Neo-
Aristotelian (what life should you lead?); The Device Paradigm; Machinery
and Commodity
Alterity Relations ANS✔✔ Interacting with technology as though it were a
person; Siri
Commodity ANS✔✔ The "thing" that the technology grants the user.
Device Paradigm ANS✔✔ (Borgmann); A device is seen as "the compound of
commodity and machinery"
Don Ihde ANS✔✔ Philosopher of Technology; Phenomenology.
Embodiment Relation ANS✔✔ Transformation of the human experience
through technology | i.e. keyboards, hearing aids, phones
Focal Things and Focal Practices ANS✔✔ Re-orient technology to help us
lead the life we want to lead
Hermeneutic Relation ANS✔✔ Technology gets its meaning from our
understanding of the technology (i.e. words on paper); MRI that represents
brain activity
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Machinery ANS✔✔ The means of receiving a commodity; background
Paradigmatic Consumption ANS✔✔ Consumption without focal
practices/things
Phenomenology ANS✔✔ A description of the human experience first-person
Prog. Antinomony; Prog. Predicament
Prognostic Antinomy ANS✔✔ How technology will develop over time; can't
predict but must try to predict developments in tech
Technological Determinism ANS✔✔ The idea that machines/technologies
and their development drive economic and cultural change
Technological Instrumentalism ANS✔✔ Technology is a tool, power comes
from person using it
Technological Mediation ANS✔✔ Technology shaping the actions and
perceptions of its user
Multistability ANS✔✔ Tech can be used in different ways based on user's
intent; has no meaning
Designers Fallacy ANS✔✔ A technology's use does not reduce to the
inventor's intent.
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