A Dispelling of Doubts on Postphenomenology:Pragmatic and Hermeneutic Dimensions of D.Idhe's Philosophy of Technology

To take post-phenomenology as some kind of Husserl's transcendental phenomenology is a misreading instead of a right way to understand D Ihde's philosophy of technology.Since the divergence on some fundamental concepts such as epoch and variation,post-phenomenology can only be taken as some kind of revised phenomenology.Actually,the deviation of post-phenomenology from its classic version is a result of learning from J.Dewey's Pragmatisim especially in ontology and epistemology.P.Ricoure's phenomenological Hermeneutics and his idea on a generalized notion on text set a sketch for post-phenomenology as a philosophy of technology to inquiry the meaning of artifacts.These two dimensions,the pragmatic and the hermeneutic,of D.Idhe's philosophy of technology are two important but neglected elements in the explanation of Ihdeology.