Heidegger, Theology and Materialism

Saw this over at Enowning.  Seems relevant here since Mormonism is such a religion about materialism. John D. Caputo on Martin Hägglund‘s Radical Atheism, from The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 11.2.

Peirce, Heidegger and Science

Joe Ransdell, who recently died and who started the mailing list Peirce-L, has a justly well regarded paper on Peirce as a phenomenologist. “Is Peirce a Phenomenologist?” is available online and it’s well worth reading. With regards to Husserl I pretty much agree with Joe. However I think he neglects Heidegger too much as it [...]

Heidegger on Presencing and Nothing

Great quote I found over at Critical Hermeneutics that does a really nice summary of a key aspect of Heidegger’s Being and Time.

Overheard While Discussing Etymology Overreach

Etymologies are, in my opinion, one of the more overused tools of analysis. The history of a word is not always a terribly good indicator about meaning or origin. Take a common word like forgive. The word is from Old English where the “for” means complete. So the etymology of the word is “complete giving.” [...]

Cognition: In the Head?

There’s a great review that gets at the issue of externalism of cognition being linked to alot. Note that the topic isn’t content externalism but whether cognition can be said to be all in the head. I think the arguments for content externalism have been remarkably strong and hard to overcome. Cognition is a slightly [...]

Nibley, Heidegger and the Goods of First and Second Intent

Enowning had up a link to an interesting interview with Ken Golberg who mentions a class on technology he teaches with Hubert Dreyfus. …technology is really a “mode of being,” a sort of attitude or culture we are immersed in. It’s not something we can consciously adopt. It’s all around us, we’re engulfed in it. [...]

Being in the World

Mark Wrathall sent a note about the film, Being in the World. “Being in the World” is heading for Northern California. Catch it at the Berkeley Film Festival at the Shattuck Cinemas on Saturday, Sept. 25th at 8:45 pm (http://berkeleyvideofilmfest.org/) or on Monday, Sept. 27th at 4:00 pm at the University of San Francisco in [...]

Trumpery, Heidegger and Derrida

Graham Harman has had up a few posts on what he calls trumpery. The latest includes some bits about Heidegger and Derrida. First let me quote the Derridean bit. Orthodox Derridean: “…as in the shallow and naive charge that Derrida ‘reduces the world to a text.’” Comment: But Derrida does reduce the world to a [...]

Heidegger and Epistemology II

Quick quote from that thesis, “The Status of Epistemology in the Thought of Martin Heidegger,” I mentioned earlier today. Here Bartels is speaking of knowing as bringing out of concealment – an important notion in Heidegger. The idea is that knowledge isn’t merely propositional knowledge or awareness but a kind of know-how for revealing something. [...]

Heidegger and Epistemology

One thing I’ve long wondered about is how to think about epistemology. On the one hand some of the approaches to epistemology common in the analytic tradition seem a bit off to me. I’ve not gone through the details of how this affects the practical reasoning, but clearly some of the critiques that Heidegger leveled [...]

Heidegger on Present-at-Hand Relations

I put up some comments on the sidebar earlier today on present-at-hand relations in Heidegger prompted by Enowning’s repost of an interview with Graham Harman. I wanted to put up a relevant quote. (Note I’ve not yet read Harman’s Tool-Being although I enjoyed his Prince of Networks even though I disagree in some key areas) [...]

Present at Hand

I wanted to continue on something I’d said over at Enowning recently. I think most who have read Heidegger are familiar with his terms read-at-hand and present-at-hand. As part of his analysis of being in the world Heidegger notes the we encounter things in use. This means we encounter things as equipment. When we use [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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