Before his retirement, Ihde was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

[7] Rather than thinking about technology as an abstract category, postphenomenological analysis looks at actual artefacts and the way they interact with users.

Ihde's work Bodies in Technology[8] spells out the original exploration of the ways cyberspace affects the human experience.

"[9] Ihde argues that movies like the Matrix trilogy play upon fantasy in a technological context and relate to the human sense of embodiment.

", Ihde re-examines Martin Heidegger's philosophy of science with a reappraisal of what was innovative, and what remained archaic.

He rejects the vestigial Diltheyan division between the humanistic and natural sciences and argues that certain types of critical interpretation, broadly hermeneutic, characterize both sets of disciplines.

He examines what he calls a style of interpretation based in material practices relating to imaging technologies which have given rise to the visual hermeneutics in technoscience studies.