• Having Some Regard for Human Frailty
    In Ingo Farin & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Heidegger and the human, State University of New York Press. pp. 307-324. 2022.
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    Finding Oneself, Called
    In Christos Hadjioannou (ed.), Heidegger on Affect, Palgrave. pp. 153-176. 2019.
    This chapter situates Heidegger’s account of moods and affects in its original philosophical and methodological home: his account of disclosing as our original human openness. The dimension of disclosing to which affects belong is finding, or findingness. The chapter argues that to be finding is to be called by vocational projects and to be called by the solicitings of entities, not only in being mooded but also in sensing and in being normatively responsive. This wider perspective on Heidegger’…Read more
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    Heidegger on Human Being : The Living Thing Having Logos
    In Karolina Hübner (ed.), Human: A History, Oxford University Press. 2022.
  • Having some regard for human frailty : on finitude and humanity
    In Ingo Farin & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Heidegger and the human, State University of New York Press. 2022.
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    Heidegger on Being Self-Concealing
    Oxford University Press. 2022.
    What is Heidegger talking about when he says that being conceals itself? This is the first study to systematically address that question. Katherine Withy analyses texts from across Heidegger's philosophical career and sorts the various phenomena of concealing and concealment that Heideggerdiscusses into a highly-structured taxonomy. The taxonomy clarifies the relationships and differences between such phenomena as lethe, the nothing, earth, excess, the backgrounding of the world, and un-truth, a…Read more
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    The Methodological Role of Angst in Being and Time
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 43 (2): 195-211. 2012.
    This paper argues for an interpretation of what Heidegger means by 'angst' in Being and Time that begins from the methodological role angst is supposed to play in Division I as that which disrupts falling. It argues that angst is a distinctive kind of ontological insight.
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    Through a reading of Heidegger's interpretation of Aristotle on the pathe, this paper develops an account of what it is for finding or attunement to be authentic or owned.
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    Division III of Being and Time (BT) was supposed to address the question of the sense of being. Being and its sense are in question because while we do understand being, it is also strangely withheld from us. That we understand being is evidenced by the fact that we have access to what and that things are (rather than not); that being is withheld from us is evidenced by the fact that we do not seem to be able to articulate what it is that we grasp in this. Being is both given to us and withheld …Read more
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    Still, the Unrest of the Question of Being
    In Richard Polt & Gregory Fried (eds.), After Heidegger?, Roman & Littlefield International. 2017.
    Being and Time begins by asking, “Do we in our time have an answer to the question of what we really mean by the word ‘being’ [seiend]?” (SZ1). Heidegger’s project is thus often understood as an attempt to answer this question of being. But Heidegger immediately goes on to say that the problem is not that we lack an answer to this question so much as that we do not even have a sense of the question: “But are we nowadays even perplexed at our inability to understand the expression ‘Being’ [Sein]?…Read more
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    Heidegger on Being Uncanny
    Harvard University Press. 2015.
    There are moments when things suddenly seem strange - objects in the world lose their meaning, we feel like strangers to ourselves, or human existence itself strikes us as bizarre and unintelligible. Through a detailed philosophical investigation of Heidegger's concept of uncanniness (Unheimlichkeit), Katherine Withy explores what such experiences reveal about us. She argues that while others (such as Freud, in his seminal psychoanalytic essay, 'The Uncanny') take uncanniness to be an affective …Read more
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    Haugeland's Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Normativity
    European Journal of Philosophy 25 (2): 463-484. 2017.
    : John Haugeland's distinctive approach to Heidegger's ontology rests on taking scientific explanation to be a paradigmatic case of understanding the being of entities. I argue that this paradigm, and the more general account that Haugeland develops from it, misses a crucial component of Heidegger's picture: the dynamic character of being. While this dimension of being first comes to the fore after Being and Time, it should have been present all along. Its absence grounds Heidegger's persistent …Read more
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    Authenticity and Heidegger's Antigone
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 45 (3): 239-253. 2014.
    Sophocles' Antigone is the only individual whom Heidegger names as authentic. But the usual interpretations of Heidegger's ‘authenticity’ either do not apply to Antigone or do not capture what Heidegger finds significant about her. By working through these failures, I develop an interpretation of Heideggerian authenticity that is adequate to his Antigone. The crucial step is accurately identifying the finitude to which Antigone authentically relates: what Heidegger calls ‘uncanniness'. I argue t…Read more
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    Situation and Limitation: Making Sense of Heidegger on Thrownness
    European Journal of Philosophy 22 (1): 61-81. 2011.
    : As Heidegger acknowledges, our understanding is essentially situated and so limited by the context and tradition into which it is thrown. But this ‘situatedness’ does not exhaust Heidegger's concept of ‘thrownness’. By examining this concept and its grammar, I develop a more complete interpretation. I identify several different kinds of finitude or limitation in our understanding, and touch on ways in which we confront and carry different dimensions of our past
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    The Strategic Unity of Heidegger's The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 51 (2): 161-178. 2013.
    This paper unifies the disparate analyses in Heidegger's lecture course, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, in a single therapeutic and philosophical project. By taking seriously the text's claim to lead us towards authenticity, I show how Heidegger's analysis of boredom works together with his comparative analysis of man and animal to diagnose and lead us out of our contemporary complacency about being. This reading puts both analyses in a new light, reveals the…Read more
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    Concealing and Concealment in Heidegger
    European Journal of Philosophy 25 (4): 1496-1513. 2017.
    The self-concealing of being is a primary preoccupation of Heidegger's later thought, but neither Heidegger nor his interpreters have made clear precisely what it is. In this paper, I identify the self-concealing of being as the concealing of the worlding of the world, which is essential to and simultaneous with that worlding. In order to establish this, I sketch a taxonomy of the various phenomena of concealing and concealment in Heidegger's work by building on Mark Wrathall's four ‘planks’ of …Read more