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18Pippin's The Culmination, ‘logic as metaphysics’, and the unintelligibility of DaseinEuropean Journal of Philosophy 32 (3): 926-936. 2024.Robert Pippin's new book, The Culmination, examines Heidegger's reading and critique of Kant and Hegel. Since Pippin is perhaps best known as one of the most influential contemporary advocates for the importance of engaging with the difficult work of Hegel in particular, it will no doubt surprise quite a few of his readers that, on some fundamental points, the book concludes that “Heidegger is right” (p. xi). In the present piece, I explore some intriguing issues that Pippin's book raises. Altho…Read more
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18Pippin's The Culmination, Heidegger's Question, and Hegel's RevengeHegel Bulletin 1-14. forthcoming.
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61Pippin's The Culmination, ‘logic as metaphysics’, and the unintelligibility of DaseinEuropean Journal of Philosophy 32 (3): 926-936. 2024.April 15, 2024: This article published in Early View in error. The article will republish shortly.
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95The Rediscovery of Heidegger’s Worldly Subject by Analytic Philosophy of ScienceThe Monist 82 (2): 324-346. 1999.This essay describes similarities between the conception of intentionality expressed in Heidegger’s early writings and the conception of propositional attitude psychology expressed in the recent work of William Bechtel and A. A. Abrahamsen. In different ways, these two approaches emphasise the “worldly” character of the intentional subject. There was a time when identifying similarities in view or argument between representatives of the “Analytic” and “Continental” camp was of intrinsic value be…Read more
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451Marie McGINN: Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy of Language and Logic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 316 pp. ISBN 978- 0199244447. £40.00/$74.00/€61.50 (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 76 (1): 259-262. 2008.
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36Ethics as a Condition of the World: The Inexpressible, the Transcendental and the Point of the TractatusDisputatio. Philosophical Research Bulletin 11. 2022.This paper presents a reading of the Tractatus’ remarks on ethics. Drawing on work by Anselm Müller, subsequently developed by Anthony Price, the reading makes of some of Wittgenstein’s most striking and most puzzling early remarks a recognizable and insightful account of ethical experience, while also accommodating the equally striking formal quality of those remarks. The account identifies a distinctive ethical achievement that requires a distance from particular concrete goods that one might …Read more
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11Affect and Authenticity: Three Heideggerian Models of Owned EmotionIn Christos Hadjioannou (ed.), Heidegger on Affect, Palgrave. pp. 127-152. 2019.This chapter explores the notion of an authentic affective life by examining three models of Heideggerian authenticity in light of his remarks on emotion. In addition to the familiar “decisionist model,” the chapter examines what I call the “standpoint model” and the “all things considered judgment model”. Each of these models suggests a distinctive picture of what authenticity in one’s affective life might be, and considering the plausibility of these pictures provides an interesting way to re-…Read more
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53Authenticity, Deliberation, and Perception: On Heidegger’s Reading and Appropriation of Aristotle’s Concept of PhronêsisJournal of the History of Philosophy 60 (1): 125-153. 2022.Heidegger discusses Aristotle’s concept of ‘phronêsis’ at length at crucial junctures in the development of his concept of ‘authenticity’; and there is a widely-held suspicion that that development is indebted to those discussions. The present paper examines that suspicion in the light of an apparent tension in Aristotle’s texts between understanding phronêsis as a perceptual capacity and understanding it as a deliberative capacity. Bronwyn Finnigan has argued that some influential, recent Heide…Read more
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29The fragmentation of being. KrisMcDaniel. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2017, 334 pp., ISBN: 9780198719656, £53.00 hb (review)European Journal of Philosophy 28 (3): 833-837. 2020.
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148On a Judgment of One’s Own: Heideggerian Authenticity, Standpoints, and All Things ConsideredMind 128 (512): 1181-1204. 2019.This paper explores two models using which we might understand Heidegger's notion of ‘Eigentlichkeit’. Although typically translated as ‘authenticity’, a more literal construal of this term would be ‘ownness’ or ‘ownedness’; and in addition to the paper's exegetical value, it also develops two interestingly different understandings of what it is to have a judgment of one's own. The first model understands Heideggerian authenticity as the owning of what I call a ‘standpoint’. Although this model …Read more
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46Beholdenness to Entities and the Concept of ‘Dasein’: Phenomenology, Ontology and Idealism in the early HeideggerEuropean Journal of Philosophy 25 (2): 512-534. 2017.
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The Enchantment of Words: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusPhilosophy 82 (322): 657-661. 2007.
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373Rules, Regression and the ‘Background’: Dreyfus, Heidegger and McDowellEuropean Journal of Philosophy 16 (3): 432-458. 2008.The work of Hubert Dreyfus interweaves productively ideas from, among others, Heidegger and Wittgenstein. A central element in Dreyfus' hugely influential interpretation of the former is the proposal that, if we are to—in some sense—'make sense' of intentionality, then we must recognize what Dreyfus calls the 'background'. Though Dreyfus has, over the years, put the notion of the 'background' to a variety of philosophical uses,1 considerations familiar from the literature inspired by Wittgenstei…Read more
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27'Bedingungen der moeglichkeit und unmoeglichkeit': Wittgenstein, Heidegger und DerridaIn Andrea Kern & Christoph Menke (eds.), Philosophie der Dekonstruktion: zum Verhältnis von Normativität und Praxis, Suhrkamp. 2002.Derrida’s writings expose ways in which philosophical texts presuppose distinctions that they are also determined to ignore. Such a dependency might be thought to undermine those texts, replacing what they take to be fundamental with deeper, unacknowledged foundations. Yet Derrida maintains that there is no simple undermining in the offing and that the structures he identifies are not to be understood as ‘supra-transcendentals’ to philosophy's ‘transcendentals’. This paper identifies a context w…Read more
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52On being as a whole and being-a-wholeIn Lee Braver (ed.), Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time: The Unanswered Question of Being, Mit Press. 2015.This paper identifies a problem that Aristotle revealed and that Heidegger’s own insights, into the diverse forms that the Being of entities takes, exacerbated: the problem is whether there is sense to the idea of ‘Being in general’—‘Being as a whole’—and this is a problem because there not being such sense threatens the very possibility of the discipline of ontology. The paper proposes that Heidegger envisaged the project which a completed Being and Time would have carried out as an attempt to …Read more
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55Heidegger and the Measure of TruthOxford University Press. 2012.Denis McManus presents a novel account of Martin Heidegger's early vision of our subjectivity and the world we inhabit. He explores key elements of Heidegger's philosophy, and argues that Heidegger's central claims identify genuine demands that must be met if we are to achieve the feat of thinking determinate thoughts about the world around us
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11Being-towards-death and one’s own best judgmentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 91 245-72. 2014.Heidegger’s discussion of ‘Being-towards-death’ occupies a prominent position in his reflections on authenticity; but it has attracted fierce criticism, and poses profound interpretative challenges. This paper will offer a novel interpretation of that discussion as contributing to the articulation of a not-implausible account of self-knowledge and self-acknowledgement. The term typically translated as ‘authenticity’—‘Eigentlichkeit’—can be translated more literally as ‘ownness’ or ‘ownedness’; a…Read more
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50Vision, norm and openness: some themes in Heidegger, Murdoch and AristotleIn Michael Beaney, Brendan Harrington & Dominic Shaw (eds.), Aspect Perception After Wittgenstein: Seeing-as and Novelty, Routledge. 2015.
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107Heidegger, Wittgenstein and St Paul on the Last Judgement: On the Roots and Significance of 'The Theoretical Attitude'British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (1). 2013.(2013). Heidegger, Wittgenstein and St Paul on the Last Judgement: On the Roots and Significance of ‘The Theoretical Attitude’. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 143-164. doi: 10.1080/09608788.2012.686980
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52Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to ReleasementInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 20 (5): 777-782. 2012.No abstract
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Heidegger and the Problem of ConsciousnessIn Denis McManus (ed.), Consciousness and the Great Philosophers, . pp. 209-216. 2016.Although Heidegger never engages directly with the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, his account of Being-in-the-world—which depicts the lives of thinking, feeling and willing agents as an essentially shared and public worldly phenomenon—entails that those lives could not differ profoundly and systematically as the classic thought-experiments that inspire the ‘hard problem’ envisage. ‘So much the worse for Heidegger!’, one might conclude. But drawing on his account, we can also arrive at a diagno…Read more
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164The general form of the proposition: The unity of language and the generality of logic in the early WittgensteinPhilosophical Investigations 32 (4): 295-318. 2009.The paper presents an interpretation of the thinking behind the early Wittgenstein's "general form of the proposition." It argues that a central role is played by the assumption that all domains of discourse are governed by the same laws of logic. The interpretation is presented partly through a comparison with ideas presented recently by Michael Potter and Peter Sullivan; the paper argues that the above assumption explains more of the key characteristics of the "general form of the proposition"…Read more
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528Ontological Pluralism and the Being and Time ProjectJournal of the History of Philosophy 51 (4): 651-673. 2013.In This Paper, I Identify a Problem, which the project that I will refer to as the ‘Being and Time Project’ (or ‘BTP’ for short) aimed to solve; this is the project within which Heidegger reinterpreted his early thought—and which he unsuccessfully attempted to bring to fruition—in, roughly speaking, the years 1925–28. The problem in question presents several faces: viewed from one angle, it concerns the unity of the concept of “Being in general,” from another, the integrity of the notion of “Das…Read more
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