What technologies do. An elucidation from the philosophy of technology

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the philosophers of the so-called Third Generation of the Philosophy of Technology conceptualize technologies, both in their development and in their implications in the scientific and social context. The structure of the article presents the relevance of technology in anthropological development; the understanding of the phenomenon of technology from the philosophical perspective and, finally, from these elucidations, how technologies are fundamental for the establishment and consolidation of World Views. The selected bibliography orbits, more specifically, around the so-called post-phenomenology, subdiscipline of Philosophy that deploys from the Phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger a more empirical and pragmatic approach to dealing with the phenomenon of technology, having as main exponent the North American philosopher, Don lhde. The method used is the bibliographic research prioritizing the interweaving between recent studies of the areas of evolutionary anthropology and the philosophy of science with the purpose of presenting factual contexts in which the concepts elaborated in the scope of the Philosophy of Technology can be elucidated.