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Using Wittgenstein for Thinking About the Meaning of Technology

por Cláudia Regina - publicado 08/03/2018 09:45 - última modificação 11/05/2018 13:26

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de 16/03/2018 - 14:00
a 16/03/2018 - 17:00

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Sala Alfredo Bosi do IEA, Rua Praça do Relógio, 109, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo

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11 3091-1686

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Wittgenstein is usually read as a philosopher of language, but does not figure in thinking about technology. In this talk I change this picture and show how what I take to be his use-oriented and holistic approach to language and meaning can also be employed for conceptualizing technology and its meaning as embedded in games and a form of life. Drawing on the Philosophical Investigations I will first sketch a working account of Wittgenstein’s view of language and meaning; in the second part of my talk I show how this approach can be used to shed light on the use of Technology in a social and cultural context, using the terms “games” and “form of life” as well as “grammar”. I argue that technology can be a game changer, but only to some extent; the “technology games” are already given before one starts a particular use of technology and have a transcendental function. I conclude that this interpretation of Wittgenstein is helpful to philosophers of technology, especially those interested in a broader and more social phenomenological analysis of technology as shaping and made possible by a form life.

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Programação

Palestrante: Mark Coeckelbergh (Dpt of Philosophy/University of Vienna-Austria)

Moderador: Pablo Rúben Mariconda (FFLCH e IEA/USP)

Evento com transmissão em: http://www.iea.usp.br/aovivo