Ludwig wittgenstein6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, Wittgenstein’s concept of “family resemblances” can be used in this way. Kogge ( 2015) proposes a “grammatical” investigation of technology, which aims at clarifying concepts used in philosophy of technology in a way that reveals distinctions relevant to our life-reality as they structure our actions and experience. Bernhard Irrgang cites Thomas Rentsch’s interpretation of Wittgenstein and Heidegger (Rentsch 2003) as one conceptual fundamental of technical practice (Irrgang 2007: 89–98). There are also some references to Wittgenstein in the context of AI research (Birnbacher 1995 Friesen and Berr 2004: 237–239). Furthermore, Hans Poser has discussed forms of life in context of technical design research, but without a concrete Wittgenstein exegesis (Poser 2004). Another exception is Nordmann ( 2002), who has used the Tractatus to link Wittgenstein with thinking about technology. One exception is Winner ( 1986), who uses a cultural-hermeneutic interpretation of Wittgenstein to emphasize how technologies are always embedded in forms of life. ![]() Moreover, in philosophy of technology little attention has been paid to the relation between language and philosophy (Coeckelbergh 2015, 2017). The work of Ludwig Wittgenstein is not very often used in philosophy of technology. With this analysis and interpretation, further supported by comments on robotics and music, we contribute to using and integrating Wittgenstein in a more systematic way within philosophy of technology and engage with perennial questions from the philosophical tradition. Finally, we propose a transcendental interpretation of games, forms of life, and grammar, which also gives us a transcendental way of looking at technique, technological practice, and performance. Then we turn to his epistemology and argue that Wittgenstein’s understanding of language use can be embedded within a more general theory about technology use understood as tool use and technique, since language-in-use is always already a skilled and embodied technological practice. This suggests a more general theory of technology use, understood as performance. Focusing on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language in the Investigations, we first discuss the relation between language use and technology use, understood as tool use, by drawing on his analogy between language and tools. This framework takes on board, and is in line with, insights from postphenomenological and hermeneutic approaches, but moves beyond those approaches by benefiting from Wittgenstein’s insights into the use of tools, technique, and performance, and by offering a transcendental interpretation of games, forms of life, and grammar. In this paper we read the Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty in order to explore the relation between language use and technology use, and take some significant steps towards constructing a framework for a Wittgensteinian philosophy of technology. Conversely, Wittgenstein scholars have paid little attention to technology in the work of Wittgenstein. The work of Ludwig Wittgenstein is seldom used by philosophers of technology, let alone in a systematic way, and in general there has been little discussion about the role of language in relation to technology. ![]()
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