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94Heidegger'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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2Existential 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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5Martin 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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40The 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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4Individuation 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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1911. 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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57A Companion to Heidegger (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2005.The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger is a complete guide to the work and thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Considers the most important elements of Heidegger’s intellectual biography, including his notorious involvement with National Socialism Provides a systematic and comprehensive exploration of Heidegger’s work One of the few books on Heidegger to cover his later work as well as Being and Time Includes key critical responses to Hei…Read more
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24Re-Establishing the Contemporary Relevance of Socratic DialecticSouthwest Philosophy Review 15 (1): 219-226. 1999.
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Mark Wrathall: a philosophical pluralist: Mark Wrathall: un filósofo pluralistaHASER. Revista Internacional de Filosofía Aplicada 4 171-179. 2013.
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26“Inappropriate Thoughts”: On Visker's The Inhuman ConditionInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 50 (4). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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26Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science (edited book)MIT Press. 2000.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.
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95The Conditions of Truth in Heidegger and DavidsonThe Monist 82 (2): 304-323. 1999.In this paper I hope to demonstrate that, despite dramatic differences in approach, Analytic and Continental philosophers can be brought into a productive dialogue with one another on topics central to the philosophical agenda of both traditions. Their differences tend to obscure the fact that both traditions have as a fundamental project the critique of past accounts of language, intentionality, and mind. Moreover, writers within the two traditions are frequently in considerable agreement about…Read more
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18Heidegger reexamined (edited book)Routledge. 2002.Heidegger and the study of his thought have earned wide acceptance, extending beyond philosophy to influence an array of other disciplines. Critically selected by leading scholars in the field, the articles in this new collection bring together the most essential and representative scholarship on Heidegger. Focusing on the major phases of his work which attracted most attention from contemporary thinkers, as well as exploring new and important areas of Heidegger scholarship, this four-volume set…Read more
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73Practical incommensurability and the phenomenological basis of robust realismInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 42 (1). 1999.This paper develops a modification of the notion of incommensurable worlds upon which Dreyfus and Spinosa base their robust realism. In particular, I argue that we cannot make sense of a conception of incommensurability according to which incommensurable worlds entail cognitively incompatible claims. Instead, as Dreyfus and Spinosa sometimes suggest, incommensurable worlds should be understood as being practically incompatible, meaning that the inhabitants of one world cannot, given their practi…Read more
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7Language, Thought, and Logic (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (1): 124-126. 2000.
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91Heidegger, truth, and referenceInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 45 (2). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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97Trivial 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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53Heidegger, 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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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