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    The following essay compares and contrasts Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time with an earlier lecture course that he delivered in the Winter Semester of 1919/2020 entitled Basic Problems of Phenomenology. Heidegger says explicitly that the pre-phenomenal basis for his analysis in Being and Time is “entities” in their equipmental totality. He calls these the “preliminary theme” for his analysis of Dasein. While the analytic of Dasein is the first step in posing the question of Being, the pre-pheno…Read more
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    Letter from the Editor
    Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 12 6-11. 2022.
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    In his early lecture courses, Martin Heidegger exhibited an abiding interest in human life. He believed that human life has philosophical import while it is actually being lived; language has philosophical import while it is being spoken. In this book, Scott Campbell traces the development of Heidegger's ideas about factical life through his interest in Greek thought and its concern with Being. He contends that Heidegger's existential concerns about human life and his ontological concerns about …Read more
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    The Catastrophic Essence of the Human Being in Heidegger’s Readings of Antigone
    Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 7 84-102. 2017.
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    The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake.
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    Seeing objects and surfaces, and the 'in virtue of' relation
    Philosophy 79 (309): 393-402. 2004.
    Frank Jackson in Perception uses the relation to ground the distinction between direct and indirect perception. He argues that it follows that our perception of physical objects is mediated by perceiving their facing surfaces, and so is indirect. I argue that this is false. Seeing a part of an object is in itself a seeing of the object; there is no indirectness involved. Hence, the relation is an inadequate basis for the direct-indirect distinction. I also argue that claims that we don't, , see …Read more
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    Heidegger and the educated life
    Philosophy Today 48 (4): 370-376. 2004.
  • On Speaking The Truth In The Early Heidegger
    Existentia 16 (5-6): 353-364. 2006.
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    Causal Analyses Of Seeing
    Erkenntnis 56 (2): 169-180. 2002.
    I critically analyse two causal analyses of seeing, by Frank Jackson and Michael Tye. I show that both are unacceptable. I argue that Jackson's analysis fails because it does not rule out cases of non-seeing. Tye's analysis seems to be superior to Jackson's in this respect, but I show that it too lets in cases of non-seeing. I also show that Tye's proposed solution to a problem for his theory -- which involves a robot that mimics another (unseen) robot -- fails. Finally I show that his 'variabil…Read more
  • Early lecture courses
    In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 179. 2013.
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    Science and the originality of life -- Christian facticity -- Grasping life as a topic -- Ruinance -- The retrieval of history -- Facticity and ontology -- Factical speaking -- Rhetoric -- Sophistry.
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    The Psychological Subject and Harré's Social Psychology: An Analysis of a Constructionist Case
    with Henderikus J. Stam
    Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 26 (4): 327-352. 1996.
    Taking Rom Harré's social constructionism as a focus we point to and discuss the issue of the a priori psychological subject in social constructionist theory. While Harré indicates that interacting, intending beings are necessary for conversation to occur, he assumes that the primary human reality is conversation and that psychological life emerges from this social domain. Nevertheless, we argue that a fundamental and agentive psychological subject is implicit to his constructionist works. Our c…Read more