Por que a tecnologia importa? As possibilidades e as consequências das tecnologias nos contextos científico e social

Abstract

This thesis seeks to elucidate, from the perspective of the philosophy of technology, what technologies are and how they enable scientific development and yet how they imply in the creation and perpetuation of social and existential structures. The method of investigation is based mainly on post-phenomenology and material hermeneutics, so that in the first moment it is demonstrated how Don Ihde describes the technology, as much for its multistability characteristic, as in the way the technologies condition the experience based on humantechnology relations. From this conception of technological development, it is sought to understand how technologies are the foundation of scientific development in such a way that science has always been technoscience. Finally, based on the same definitions of the phenomenon of technology together with existential human experience and scientific practices, it is evaluated how technological development has produced structures of domination and control that are the very milieuof the present civilized world.