Philosophical Focus
I notice one other interesting thing at the materialism post at Larval Subjects. Levi says the following:
And moreover, as Graham likes to say, if you only ever find yourself talking about the human-world relation then you’re a correlationist. If your philosophy has nothing significant to say about the relation between a rock and soil, [...]
Mormonism, Externalism and OOO
I’d brought up at LDS-Herm my recent comments on Heidegger, Peirce and externalism. While this is one of those topics where there appears no over LDS connection I did find it interesting that this discussion was so close to topics I’ve been studying off and on for many years. In fact this blog [...]
More Against Correlationism
Just a quick followup on yesterday’s post on Kant, Heidegger, Peirce and externalism. This is from Gary Fuhrman’s paper I’d linked to in the sideblog earlier.
Avoiding Correlationism
Enowning linked today to Graham Harman explaining Meillassoux’s correlationism critique in Philosophy Today. I thought this would be a great place to engage Peirce and Heidegger with each other.
The critique is roughly a Kantian critique. To think things in themselves fails since to think of it immediately turns itself into [...]
Heidegger and Realism
Heidegger’s realism (or lack thereof) has been a topic of many blogs the past few weeks. Sadly it’s come right at what for me has been the second most busy time of the year. So other than the occasional comment at other blogs I’ve not said much. I still don’t really have [...]
Dreyfus and Heidegger
Interesting post over at Minds and Brains. It makes a claim about Dreyfus that is intriguing. (Dreyfus of course has a well received commentary on Being and Time as well as a highly influential class at Berkeley on the same that many subscribe to via iTunes U)
…it is this feature of Heideggerian thought [...]
Levinas, Heidegger & Objects
Enowning linked to a post by dis|closure on “enjoying your objects.” It’s interesting as it raises one place where I think Levinas simply gets Heidegger wrong.
Levinas refutes the Heideggerian notion that the existents in our lives, whether they be bread, hammers, pens, etc. are simply tools, or “means of life.” Levinas [...]
Heidegger on Dewey
Despite having a lot of parallels with the pragmatism movement Heidegger had a very dim view of American philosophy and Dewey in particular.
Pragmatism in general but Dewey in particular thoughts that philosophy had to include all the other kinds of experiences we have beyond what philosophy had traditionally considered. This was a [...]
Beyond Realism and Idealism
I’ve been reading, off and on, various blogs by speculative realists. Since I’m still recovering my health I’ve not delved into any of their formal works yet. (Plus I still have some Badiou and Davidson to finish before starting any new projects) Still, some of the blog posts, especially by Harman, really [...]
Heidegger and Science
I was discussing science, math and Heidegger the other day. I came upon a paper by Joseph Rouse that is useful. “Heidegger on Science and Naturalism” (PDF) He’s done quite a lot on it.
The important thing to remember with Heidegger is that mathematics is more than numbers. Unsurprising since it is [...]
PoMo Conservative against Atheists
The PostModern Conservative has a post up against New Atheism.
“…hit the new atheists hard with the Heideggerian criticism of the vulgarity of their materialism. They cowardly avoid the question of being, of why is there is being rather than nothing at all, or of even why scientists or other free persons could come [...]
Multitasking: Missing the Point?
Chris sent me an interesting story last week regarding the multitasking debate. It asks whether multitasking studies are missing the point. You probably recall the discussions on studies that those who multitask do more poorly than those who single task. Which, I think we all already knew from our personal experience. [...]
German Mind
Brandon at Sirus posted a funny quote by Duhem on Kant:
Highly skilled at deduction, the German mind is poorly endowed with common sense. It has a limitless confidence in the discursive method, whereas its confused intuition gives it only a weak assurance of the truth.
Read the full quote and discussion at Sirus. He [...]
God, Dasein and Omniscience
It’s interesting to ask, in a Heideggarian context, what God’s knowledge consists of. That is when we ask about God’s knowledge we are asking in the traditional philosophical context of a way of knowing best called theoretic knowledge. (That is representational) I think Heidegger argues persuasively that this sort of knowledge is [...]
Why Heidegger?
OK, yes, still very busy. (I’m holding down the fort here at work alone which is a tad overwhelming) I thought I’d address a shorter question. Why do I find Heidegger interesting now? I have to admit that what I once studied 10 or even 5 years ago just isn’t what [...]
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