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the connection between philosophy and literature goes back at least to plato, who has a well reputed fame in philosophy as well as literature. schopenhauer, russell, bergson and … are the other philosophers whose philosophical works, according to critics, are comparable to the best literary works. in order to express their philosophical viewpoints they have had access to an appropriate language...

Michael Wheeler, in his book Reconstructing the Cognitive World, analyses the development of embedded-embodied cognitive science in the light of underlying philosophical differences about the constitution of human agency. On one side he sees orthodox computational cognitive science as holding to Cartesian conceptions of an abstract, disembodied reason deliberating over de-contextualised represe...

It seems that complaints about Heidegger’s style of writing are common fare in secondary literature and the classroom. This paper argues that both Heidegger’s obtuseness and obscurantism work as methodological devices for effectively communicating and demonstrating his thought. By obfuscating, he forces breakdowns, which pulls the reader out of her ready-to-hand mode of reading/revealing, which...

In this paper I argue that Arthur Fine and Martin Heidegger present responses to the dispute between realism and antirealism that are remarkably close in character. Both claim that this dispute arises from a failure to take seriously our everyday experience of things in the world. I argue that it is useful to note the similarity between Fine and Heidegger for two distinct reasons: 1) their view...

Affinities have been noted between radical behaviorism and phenomenology, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism, but this paper claims the most promising one has been neglected. Skinner’s behaviorism is best seen as elucidating that time-sense characteristic of ordinary, habitual life which Heidegger calls a “temporalizing of everydayness.” We usually live ‘from moment to moment’ as if we were ju...

the possibility and character of comparative philosophy are nowadays important questions. phenomenological approach is one of the main approaches concerning comparative philosophy. henry corbin is also one of the founders of this discipline, who though many efforts, concluding his critiques to historicism, lacks in some components, as many of his followers do. current essay, reading heidegger&a...