Heidegger

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 on das Man - Rewrite

Section 1 establishes some key similarities between Heidegger and Georg Simmel in order to motivate the hypothesis that Simmel’s account of how society is possible can be used to give an account of das Man which reconciles the transcendentally philosophical role emphasised by Dreyfus with the ethically negative features emphasised by Olafson. Section 2 elaborates the issue addressed in Ch. 4 of...

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...

Rethinking the Heidegger-Deep Ecology Relationship

Recent disclosures regarding the relationship between Heidegger’s thought and his own version of National Socialism have led me to rethink my earlier efforts to portray Heidegger as a forerunner of deep ecology. His political problems have provided ammunition for critics, such as Murray Bookchin, who regard deep ecology as a reactionary movement. In this essay, I argue that, despite some simila...

Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience