"Hermeneutic relations and interfaces: linking agents, artifacts, and environment"

PARENTE, DIEGO; MASCARÓ, LUCIANO

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

Society for philosophy and technology

Año: 2023

This article seeks to make a contribution to a specific discussion within the postphenomenological debate, namely, the identification of a set of characteristics that a human-technology relationship must possess in order to be considered as dominantly hermeneutic. After presenting the main features of a conception -widely accepted among postphenomenologists- that holds that there is a continuum of human-technology relations, this paper will attempt to explicitly delineate the characteristics of a family of artifacts where the hermeneutic dimension is dominant. This task will be carried out via the introduction of the key notion of interface. A series of conditions will be presented for an artifact to be included into this family, which will be called “hermeneutic interfaces”.