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97Heidegger'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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5Existential 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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4A 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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7Martin 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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1UnconcealmentIn 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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3Heidegger 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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43The 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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17Who 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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9The 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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28“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. 1993.
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30Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus (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 …Read more
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The phenomenology of social rulesTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 67 (1): 123-147. 2005.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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44Appropriating Heidegger (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2000.Although Martin Heidegger is undeniably one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, among the philosophers who study his work we find considerable disagreement over what might seem to be basic issues: why is Heidegger important? What did his work do? This volume is an explicit response to these differences, and is unique in bringing together representatives of many different approaches to Heidegger's philosophy. Topics covered include Heidegger's place in the 'history of b…Read more
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124A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2006.A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism is a complete guide to two of the dominant movements of philosophy in the twentieth century. Written by a team of leading scholars, including Dagfinn Føllesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean–Luc Marion Highlights the area of overlap between the two movements Features longer essays discussing each of the main schools of thought, shorter essays introducing prominent themes, and problem–oriented chapters Organised topically, around concepts such…Read more
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Religion After Metaphysics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2003.How should we understand religion, and what place should it hold, in an age in which metaphysics has come into disrepute? The metaphysical assumptions which supported traditional theologies are no longer widely accepted, but it is not clear how this 'end of metaphysics' should be understood, nor what implications it ought to have for our understanding of religion. At the same time there is renewed interest in the sacred and the divine in disciplines as varied as philosophy, psychology, literatur…Read more
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59Motives, reasons, and causesIn Taylor Carman & Mark B. N. Hansen (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, Cambridge University Press. pp. 111--128. 2005.
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Introduction: Metaphysics and Onto-TheologyIn Religion After Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--6. 2003.
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117Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language, and HistoryCambridge University Press. 2010.This book includes ten essays that trace the notion of unconcealment as it develops from Heidegger's early writings to his later work, shaping his philosophy of truth, language and history. 'Unconcealment' is the idea that what entities are depends on the conditions that allow them to manifest themselves. This concept, central to Heidegger's work, also applies to worlds in a dual sense: first, a condition of entities manifesting themselves is the existence of a world; and second, worlds themselv…Read more
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40The Cambridge companion to Heidegger's Being and time (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.The Companion begins with a section-by-section overview of Being and Time and a chapter reviewing the genesis of this seminal work. The final chapter situates Being and Time in the context of Heidegger's later work.
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16On the existential positivity of our ability to be deceivedIn Clancy W. Martin (ed.), The Philosophy of Deception, Oxford University Press. pp. 67. 2009.
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28Language, Thought, and Logic (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (1): 124-126. 2000.