Monthly Archives: June 2012

My thinking often returns to tools.  Whether philosophically or practically, the idea of the tool fascinates me.  I first became aware of the question of tools through the writings of philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger, and Gadamer–tools, devices, equipment, the in-order-to, the ready-to-hand, the hammer vs. the hammering-hand.  One of the difficulties of tools is [...]