社会建构论对技术哲学研究范式的影响

传统技术哲学在其发展过程中陷入了难以自拔的两难困境,社会建构论的技术研究强调从微观技术入手,深入到技术内部,从而对技术哲学研究范式的转换发生了重要影响。第一代法兰克福学派在美国的主要代表安德鲁.费恩伯格的技术批判理论就是运用社会建构论的技术研究,把批判理论从传统的社会批判转向技术批判的一个典型案例。

The Social Constructivism and the Paradigmatic Shift in Studies of Philosophy of Technology

At first,this paper illustrates the development process of traditional theories of philosophy of technology and the main methodology principle of society construction,analyzes the function of society construction to the research of philosophy of technology,then,it takes the main representative of new generation of Frankfurt's school in the United States,the famous philosopher of technology,Andrew Lewis Feenberg's theories as an individual case,to analyze the function of social construction in the process of founding Andrew Feenberg's critical theory of technology,and Feenberg's rectify to its lack.