From Metaphysics of techniques to Anthropology of technology
Situating philosophy today

講演者： Alain Marc Rieu
Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Lyon III
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of East Asian Study (CNRS), Ecole Normale Supérieure
Visiting Professor, Chuo University
Associate Researcher, Waseda University

Abstract:
What drives technological development and innovation in a culture and society? What blocks it or slows it down? Economics and sociology provide important but partial answers. Other explanations are required.
This communication intends to analyze the various metaphysical layers explaining the development of technology and techniques in Western Europe. These metaphysical layers also explain the formation since the early 19th century of a global program defining technology as “applied science” and later as “techno-science”. This program played a decisive role in the development and management of an “industrial society” in Europe but also outside Europe, in Japan and the USA. This program led also to the influential metaphysical interpretation of technology developed by Heidegger in the early 1950es.
This communication intends also to explain how in the 1960es in France discourses and theories on technology transformed into a powerful anthropology of technology, mainly by André Leroi-Gourhan, Bertrand Gille and Gilbert Simondon. They produced new knowledge and opened new research.
Today presuppositions, ideologies, discourses on technology have become an object of investigation and debate. Economics is managing technology and society though Innovation policies, which concern all aspects of life in society. What should be the role of an anthropology or epistemology of technology? How does it concern the meaning and practice of philosophy?
Finally this communication wishes to open or intensify joint comparative research with Japanese specialists.

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☆講演者のリュー先生は現在中央大学の招きで来日されています。この機会に技術哲学の基本問題に関してお話をいただく予定です。
この講演会は、UTCPで今年度からはじまった「技術哲学」をテーマにしたプロジェクトの最初の試みです。
今後も技術哲学、ならびに、日本思想に関連した研究会を行っていく予定です。日本では、戸坂潤、三木清、三枝博音などにみられるように、二〇世紀の前半には技術に関する哲学的議論が活発に行われました。
その後の技術論の展開を踏まえて、現在、あらためて技術に関して哲学的議論を行う可能性と意義はどのような点にあるのか。
こうした問題を議論します。

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