A hermeneutic understanding of software allows us to explain those aspects of software that escape a strictly technical definition, such as the relationship with the user, the human being, and the social and cultural transformations that software produces.
Luca M. Possati is a Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Porto, Portugal. His fields of investigation are Philosophy of Technology and Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of many studies in Phenomenology and the History of Philosophy.
1. Introduction: The Paradoxical Onion.- 2. Software and Lived Experience.- 3. Can We Interpret the Code? A Ricoeurian Perspective on Software.- 4. Software and Writing: A Philosophical and Historical Analysis.- 5. The Digital Reflective Judgment.- 6. Conclusions: Toward a Critical Code Thinking.