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95Heidegger's Last GodInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 54 (2): 160-182. 2011.In this paper, we discuss Martin Heidegger's position on the so-called godlessness of our current age. Rather than holding that we must either await the advent of god or enthusiastically embrace our godlessness, Heidegger holds that a third option is available to us: we could fundamentally change the way we experience the world by leaving behind all remnants of metaphysical thinking. In Section II, we show that, despite the absence of god, our current historical moment shares a metaphysical stru…Read more
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4Existential PhenomenologyIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Existential Phenomena The Existential‐Phenomenological Practice of Description.
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3A Brief Introduction to Phenomology and ExistentialismIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Phenomenology Existentialism The Organization of the Book.
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6Martin Heidegger: An Introduction to His Thought, Work, and LifeIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Heidegger's Early Life and Early Work.
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UnconcealmentIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Truth and Unconcealment Unconcealment in General The Planks of the Platform Propositioned truth Unconcealment of the essence (being) of beings The revealing‐concealing of the clearing.
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Introduction: Hubert Dreyfus and the phenomenology of human intelligenceIn Hubert L. Dreyfus (ed.), Skillful Coping: Essays on the Phenomenology of Everyday Perception and Action, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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2Heidegger and Contemporary Philosophy: Heidegger Reexamined (edited book)Routledge. 2002.First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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41The question of ontological dependencyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (3): 547-559. 2022.In his early work, Heidegger seems to be committed to a perplexing combination of ontological idealism and ontic realism (i.e. entities do not depend on human b...
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8Individuation and Heidegger’s Ontological “Intuitionism”In Véronique M. Fóti & Pavlos Kontos (eds.), Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political: Essays in Honor of Jacques Taminiaux, Springer. 2017.When Heidegger insists that each of us is distinctive because “the most radical individuation” is both possible and necessary for us, he might mean: it is possible and necessary to be an individual in the most radical way; or it is possible and necessary to engage in the project of becoming a distinct individual in the most radical way; or it is possible and necessary to see the distinct individual that I am, and to do so in the most radical way. Although all three readings are possible and defe…Read more
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15Who is the Self of Everyday Existence?In Schmid Hans Bernhard & Thonhauser Gerhard (eds.), From conventionalism to social authenticity : Heidegger’s anyone and contemporary social theory, Springer. 2017.I argue that, for Heidegger, to be a self is to be a particular way of making some environmental affordances stand out as more salient than other, and of aligning affordances into coherent trajectories to be followed in pursuing our projects. When Heidegger argues that the self of everyday existence is “the anyone-self,” he means that we tend to polarize situations into affordances that solicit us to act in such a way as to reinforce public, average, and levelled down ways of engaging with the w…Read more
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7The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2019.Martin Heidegger was one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly influenced philosophers including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Richard Rorty, Hubert Dreyfus, Stanley Cavell, Emmanuel Levinas, Alain Badiou, and Gilles Deleuze. His accounts of human existence and being and his critique of technology have inspired theorists in…Read more
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2011. Our Fragilized World and the Immanent FrameIn Michael Kühnlein (ed.), Charles Taylor: Ein Säkulares Zeitalter, De Gruyter. pp. 161-178. 2018.
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26“I” “here” and “you” “there”: Heidegger on Existential Spatiality and the “Volatilized” SelfYearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2017 (2): 223-234. 2017.
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Unconcealment and TruthDissertation, University of California, Berkeley. 1996.Does truth remain an interesting philosophical topic? Deflationists would argue that it does not, for they believe that Tarskian approaches to truth have succeeded in capturing much of our understanding of the concept without the metaphysical baggage and other shortcomings of traditional attempts at definition. ;Philosophers like Donald Davidson, however, have argued that acceptance of Tarski's insights into the workings of the truth predicate require us to say something more about the concept o…Read more
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1Truth and essence of truth in Heidegger's thought,'In Charles B. Guignon (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, Cambridge University Press. pp. 241--267. 2006.
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7Language, Thought, and Logic (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (1): 124-126. 2000.
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92Heidegger, truth, and referenceInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (2). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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56Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus (edited book)MIT Press. 2000.For more than a quarter of a century, Hubert L. Dreyfus has been the leading voice in American philosophy for the continuing relevance of phenomenology, particularly as developed by Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Dreyfus has influenced a generation of students and a wide range of colleagues, and these volumes are an excellent representation of the extent and depth of that influence.In keeping with Dreyfus's openness to others' ideas, many of the essays in this volum…Read more
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104Trivial Tasks that Consume a Lifetime: Kierkegaard on Immortality and Becoming SubjectiveThe Journal of Ethics 19 (3-4): 419-441. 2015.S. Kierkegaard argued that our highest task as humans is to realize an “intensified” or “developed” form of subjectivity—his name for self-responsible agency. A self-responsible agent is not only responsible for her actions. She also bears responsibility for the individual that she is. In this paper, I review Kierkegaard’s account of the role that our capacity for reflective self-evaluation plays in making us responsible for ourselves. It is in the exercise of this capacity that we can go from b…Read more
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19Authenticity, Death, and the History of Being: Heidegger Reexamined (edited book)Routledge. 2002.First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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13Skillful Coping: Essays on the Phenomenology of Everyday Perception and Action (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.For fifty years Hubert Dreyfus has done pioneering work which brings phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. This is a selection of his most influential essays, developing his critique of the representational model of the mind in analytical philosophy of mind and mainstream cognitive science.
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52Nicht-rationale grundlagen und nicht-konzeptueller inhaltSynthesis Philosophica 20 (2): 265-278. 2005.Die phänomenologische Tradition war lange Zeit der Auffassung, dass die natürliche Perzeption weder konzeptuell artikuliert ist noch von deterministischen Gesetzen beherrscht wird, sondern dass sie eher nach der praktisch artikulierten Struktur des körperlichen In-der-Welt-Seins organisiert ist. Dabei bleibt die Erklärung dafür problematisch, auf welche Art und Weise die Perzeption dem Denken eine rechtfertigende Unterstützung bieten kann. Die Antwort der Phänomenologen lautet, dass es die bedeu…Read more
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9Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, Volume 2 (edited book)MIT Press. 2000.Hubert L. Dreyfus's engagement with other thinkers has always been driven by his desire to understand certain basic questions about ourselves and our world. The philosophers on whom his teaching and research have focused are those whose work seems to him to make a difference to the world. The essays in this volume reflect this desire to "make a difference"—not just in the world of academic philosophy, but in the broader world. Dreyfus has helped to create a culture of reflection—of questioning t…Read more
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6Phenomenology, Dasein, and Truth: Heidegger Reexamined (edited book)Routledge. 2002.First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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36The phenomenology of social rulesIn Thomas Baldwin (ed.), Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie, Routledge. 2007.In this paper, I explore the nature of social rules, including the limitations of most theories of rules which see them either as intentionally followed by, or as objectively describing the behavior of social actors. I argue that a phenomenological description of what it is like actually to be governed by a rule points the way to reconceptualizing the role of social rules in structuring our world and our experience of the world
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Philosophy, thinkers, and Heidegger's place in the history of beingIn James E. Faulconer & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), Appropriating Heidegger, Cambridge University Press. pp. 9--29. 2000.
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19McManus, Denis., Heidegger and the Measure of Truth (review)Review of Metaphysics 67 (2): 434-436. 2013.