Heidegger and the Human Difference

Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience

Heidegger, Voegelin and the Human Predicament: A Case Study

Modern intellectual discourse is still under the spell of the Heideggerian project. Once it had broken away from its German moorings Heideggerian thought proliferated and was received into non-German cultures. Their intellectual elites appropriated it according to their own reading of Heideggerian texts. While they came to divergent and often contradictory conclusions about the philosophical an...

An Essential Difference Wheeler and Heidegger on the Relationship Between Science and Philosophy

Michael Wheeler, in his book Reconstructing the Cognitive World, analyses the development of embedded-embodied cognitive science in the light of underlying philosophical differences about the constitution of human agency. On one side he sees orthodox computational cognitive science as holding to Cartesian conceptions of an abstract, disembodied reason deliberating over de-contextualised represe...

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 ...