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The thesis I wish to explore in this essay is that there is a significant sense in which technology may be seen to be both ontologically and historically prior to science. There is, of course, an obvious and trivial sense in which this claim may be regarded as true. If technologies in the broadest and most concrete sense involve humans and their uses of tools and artifacts, then at the least one can say that technology in this sense is both universal and was probably involved at the time of the emergence of the human species. There are no instances of societies, cultures, or human groups which do not use tools and artifacts in their relations with the natural environment.
This article appeared in Existential Technics. Sunny Press, 1983.
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Ihde, D. (1983). The Historical-Ontological Priority of Technology Over Science. In: Durbin, P.T., Rapp, F. (eds) Philosophy and Technology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7124-0_16
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