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Challenging the Phenomena of Technology

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  1. Matt Hayler

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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Part of the book series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (NDPCS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Matt Hayler
    Pages 1-6

  3. Fighting the Tools of Our Nature: Technology in the Popular Imagination

    • Matt Hayler
    Pages 7-59

  4. Beyond Common Sense: Technology by Definition

    • Matt Hayler
    Pages 60-118

  5. All Is One but Not for All: Technology as an Object Encountered in the World

    • Matt Hayler
    Pages 119-163

  6. Brushing Against Reality: Technological Interactions Require Knowledge

    • Matt Hayler
    Pages 164-206

  7. What Everything Knows: Technologies as an Embodiment of Knowledge

    • Matt Hayler
    Pages 207-229

  8. Conclusion

    • Matt Hayler
    Pages 230-234

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 235-251
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What is 'technology'? What does it help us to do? What does it force us to consider about our experience of being in the world? In Challenging the Phenomena of Technology, technology is positioned as an experience with specific features, rather than as a class of objects, and this enables a reflection on the ways in which amateurs and experts interact with the artefacts that all humans rely upon. Using e-readers, such as the Kindle and iPad, as a case study, Hayler argues that the use of technology is both more complicated and more human than public discussion often gives it credit for, forcing us to consider its impacts on perception, cognition, and what it means to know anything at all.

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  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Matt Hayler

About the author

Dr. Matt Hayler spent three years as a teaching fellow at the University of Exeter where he developed modules in Digital Studies and Critical Theory. During this time he acted as the network coordinator for the AHRC Cognitive Futures in the Humanities research network and spoke at the second TEDxExeter conference on the beauty inherent in technological use. He currently lectures in post-1945 literature at the University of Birmingham.

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