Reimagining Philosophy and Technology, Reinventing Ihde

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This volume includes eleven originalessays that explore and expand onthe work of Don Ihde, bookended by two chapters by Ihde himself. Ihde, the recipient of the first Society for Philosophy and Technology'sLifetime Achievement Award in 2017, is best known for his development of postphenomenology, a blend of pragmatism and phenomenology that incorporatesinsights into the waystechnologymediates human perception andaction. The book contains contributions from academics from Europe, North America, and Asia, which demonstrates the global impact of Ihde’s work. Essays in the book explore the relationship betweenIhde's work and itsorigins inphenomenology (especially Husserl and Heidegger) and Americanpragmatism; integrate his philosophical work withinthe embodied experience ofradical architecture and imaginethepossibility of a future philosophy of technology after postphenomenology; develop central ideas of postphenomenology and expandthe resources present inpostphenomenology to ethics and politics; and extendthe influence of Ihde's ideas to mobile media andengineering, and comprehensively assess the influence of his workin China. The book includes a reprint of the Introduction of Sense and Significance , one of Ihde's first books;"Hawk: Predatory Vision," a new chapter thatblends hisbiographical experience with feminism, technoscience, and environmental observation; and an appendix thatlists all of Ihde's books as well as secondary sources annotated by Ihde himself. Starting withan Editors' Introduction that offers an overview of the central ideas in Ihde's corpus and concluding with an index that facilitates research across the variouschapters, this book is of interestto a diverse academic community that includes philosophers,STSscholars, anthropologists, historians, and sociologists.

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