Harmon on Science and Heidegger

Graham Harman at his blog responding to a post at Enowning: “As a scientist, I am fairly satisfied with science’s explanations for raindrops, but find science’s explanation for humans’ concerns unsatisfying, or just missing entirely.” Yes, this is the standard continental attitude. The natural sciences are doing fine already with the non-human world, so let’s [...]

More on the Prefix Paradox

I’ve been thinking a bit more about the Prefix Paradox from the other day, as I don’t think I really put into words well my objections. First, I think when considering it one ought distinguish between belief, assertion, and judgment. The most interesting aspects of the “paradox” are in my mind the epistemological ones. And [...]

Interview with Richard Capobianco

Interview with Richard Capobianco. I especially liked the discussion of Plato’s Cave and Heidegger and how the sun can be read ontologically rather than ontically. I wished he’d gone into the neoPlatonic readings of the same allegory.

The Power of the Door Close

The power of the elevator door close button

Intuitions in Philosophical Argument

Use of intuitions in philosophical argument

Withdrawal in Harman

The meaning of withdrawal in OOP? This was a point I always was confused on, perhaps due to the Heideggarian language applied to a non-phenomenological realm.

Weakness of Will

Interesting post on empirical studies about weakness of will intuitions. Particularly why do we call it weakness of will if don’t do a good we want to do, but not when we don’t do an evil we want to do. Something I’d never thought about before.

Pluralism and Religious Epistemology

This post was prompted by a very interesting blog post over at the Huffington Post. (Not the normal place for this sort of discussion) They brought up the following oft noted issue in epistemology. You can have a collection of beliefs, each one you believe and yet also believe that at least some of the [...]

Harmon on the New Being and Time

Harman over at OOP makes an interesting comment about the new revised translation of Being and Time. I never quite understood what the problem supposedly was with the original Macquarrie & Robinson translation. There are a few weird hyphenated coinages in there, yes, but the fact they were able to nail it well enough in [...]

Cosmology and Realism

I was rereading an old post from Deontologistics on Heidegger and realism. Part of his discussion is what he perceives to be the change in Heidegger’s thought from the middle to late period. One of the big changes he sees is that concealments becomes not just a feature of Dasein but the outside world itself. [...]

Idealism, Realism and Minds

Great post on idealism vs. realism in the Heidegger debate up at Deontologistics. I’ll try and add some comments when (if?) I have some time. I think this is a place where the “halfway” position of the pragmatists offers a lot.

Various Thoughts

Whew. It’s been a busy few weeks for me. New baby girl. New factory outlet store. Lots of other things going on. I hope you don’t mind but I’d like to do a sort of “catch all” for stuff a bit long for the sidebar. First let me say that Safari 5′s new “Reader” mode [...]

Tripartite Model of Being

The tripartite model of being in Heidegger. It’s interesting comparing these to Peirce’s categories.

Sherlock Holmes Expert

Analyzing experts through Sherlock Holmes. Yes, it’s a real paper at PubMed.

Peirce & Being

My wife just had our daughter today (our third child) so posting will be light. I’m somewhat incoherent from lack of sleep, as you might expect. I long ago learned that writing while sleep deprived is never a good idea. That said I’ve been reading a bit here as my wife and baby sleep and [...]

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