Heidegger and the Herringbone Cowshed

Accident prevention in the cowshed.

Work accidents were studied at two agricultural settlements in the Haifa area. Most of the accidents were caused by farm animals, particularly by cattle, a fact which is in agreement with a general statistical survey conducted by the Department for Occupational Health of the General Federation of Labour in Israel. However, in the present investigation it was found that the accident rate in cows...

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...

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 ...

Heidegger and The Concealment Of Crisis

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...