In-der-Blog-sein

Mormon Metaphysics posts on Peirce, Heidegger and Science, and observes:

For Heidegger though gestell (enframing or the essence of technology) is a kind of gathering together that allows things to be revealed. It’s a revealing through a kind of framework or assembly. This is often taken in Kuhnian terms as a kind of paradigm. Yet Kuhn brings with him a kind of instrumentalism in which things are for uses. Heidegger, despite how he is often portrayed, just isn’t interested in this. Heidegger does not say that modern science is technological. (Which is what Joe claims) Rather Heidegger’s claim is just that science is a way of revealing the world. And the way science reveals is things as objects. This lets technology treat things as objects to be manipulated.