Technologies are undeniably having a decisive, transformative impact on Earth, yet the currently prevailing empirically orientated approaches in the philosophy of technology seem unable to get to conceptual grips with this fact. Some thinkers have therefore been trying to develop alternative methods capable of clarifying it. This paper focuses on Vincent Blok’s call for rehabilitating an ontologically oriented approach. It reconstructs the rationale of his method as well as its key elements and structure. Elucidating Blok’s emphasis on the experience of climate change, the paper clarifies his call for a terrestrial turn in the philosophy of technology. This turn is indisputably needed, but Blok’s conceptualisation of Earth is problematic: Apart from its speculative nature, it underestimates the impact of humans on Earth. Blok seeks to clarify how ontic phenomena, especially particular technologies, can have an ontological impact, but there is a friction between his Heideggerian concept of the world as grounding inner-worldly beings and the idea of technologies as founding a new world. Identifying the elements where the undoubtedly required ontological approach needs to be rethought, the paper suggests that we need more mundane conceptualisations of both Earth and the world, accompanied by more attention to ontic processes.

不可否认，技术正在对地球产生决定性的、变革性的影响，但目前技术哲学中盛行的以经验为导向的方法似乎无法从概念上把握这一事实。因此，一些思想家一直在尝试开发能够澄清这一问题的替代方法。本文重点关注文森特·布洛克（Vincent Blok）关于恢复本体论导向方法的呼吁。它重建了他的方法的基本原理及其关键要素和结构。该论文阐明了布洛克对气候变化经验的重视，澄清了他对技术哲学的地面转向的呼吁。这一转变无疑是必要的，但布洛克对地球的概念化是有问题的：除了其推测性之外，它还低估了人类对地球的影响。布洛克试图阐明本体现象，尤其是特定的技术，如何产生本体论影响，但他的海德格尔世界概念（作为内在世俗存在的基础）与技术作为建立新世界的概念之间存在摩擦。该论文确定了需要重新思考无疑所需的本体论方法的要素，建议我们需要对地球和世界进行更多平凡的概念化，同时更多地关注本体过程。