Heidegger on Assertion, Method and Metaphysics

Heidegger and Carnap on the Overcoming of Metaphysics

Carnap’s famous demonstration of the “nonsensical” character of certain sentences from Heidegger’s Was ist Metaphysik? has generally not been read as a serious engagement with or criticism of Heidegger’s thought. I argue to the contrary. I show, first, that Heidegger and Carnap are both reacting against the same features of Husserl’s system, for the same reasons, and, second, that Carnap unders...

Heidegger on Science and Naturalism

Joseph Rouse Wesleyan University Heidegger’s reputation in the Anglophone philosophical world suggests that he was unsympathetic to the natural sciences, and generally unconcerned with the philosophy of science. Even among those who know his work, philosophy of science is not usually considered central to Heidegger, nor is he seen as a significant contributor to philosophy of science. This diss...

COMPASS: A Comprehensible Assertion Method

We present an approach for automatically generating relevant , focused questions to be asked during code inspection sessions. The method is based on Hoare-logic. The novel key idea is the introduction of informal predicates, which, though not having a formal definition , may have a perfectly legal and unique informal interpretation. Such predicates make it easier to express requirements in term...

Heidegger on das Man - Rewrite

Section 1 establishes some key similarities between Heidegger and Georg Simmel in order to motivate the hypothesis that Simmel’s account of how society is possible can be used to give an account of das Man which reconciles the transcendentally philosophical role emphasised by Dreyfus with the ethically negative features emphasised by Olafson. Section 2 elaborates the issue addressed in Ch. 4 of...

Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience