Heidegger and Cassirer on Science after the Cassirer and Heidegger of Davos

Heidegger on Science and Naturalism

Joseph Rouse Wesleyan University Heidegger’s reputation in the Anglophone philosophical world suggests that he was unsympathetic to the natural sciences, and generally unconcerned with the philosophy of science. Even among those who know his work, philosophy of science is not usually considered central to Heidegger, nor is he seen as a significant contributor to philosophy of science. This diss...

Ernst Cassirer: Science, Symbols, and Logics

Heidegger, Measurement and the ‘Intelligibility’ of Science

This paper provides a sympathetic reading of Heidegger’s early remarks on science. The prospects for such a reading may seem dim since his overall philosophical outlook appears to be anti-naturalist with problematic idealist leanings; for example, despite the fact that Heidegger claims to reject realism and idealism (a claim I will refer to as (C1)), he attacks a conception of the constitution ...

the geopolitics of afghanistan after september 11, 2001, and its impact on iranian national security

abstract u.s. attack to afghanistan after 9/11 provided opportunities for us who tried to become the dominant power after collapse of ussr and bipolar world. thinkers like fukuyama believed american liberal democrats thought would be universally accepted without resistances. liberal democracy is the best and final model of governance; in this regard, united state has moral responsibilities for...

Reading Brandom Reading Heidegger

While brilliance and originality surely top the list of qualities shared by Brandom and Heidegger, another commonality is a tendency to treat their predecessors as partial and sometimes confused versions of themselves. Heidegger, therefore, could hardly be indignant on principle if Brandom finds a fair bit of Making it Explicit in the first division of Being and Time. Nevertheless, some details...