Sacha Golob (Cambridge): Heidegger, Kant and Pragmatism

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 4:30pm
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm

Heidegger, Kant, and Pragmatism
Talk at CEU, 25th Oct. 2011
Sacha Golob (Cambridge)
The purpose of this talk is to develop a new reading and assessment of one of Heidegger’s main claims about intentionality: the claim that propositional intentionality is explanatorily dependent on some prior, non-propositional mode of intentionality. The talk divides into three parts. In part 1, I explain why I find existing accounts of this claim problematic. In part 2, I advance a new reading of the claim. This reading is based on Heidegger’s work on Kant: I argue, amongst other points, that we should sharply distinguish the propositional from the conceptual. In part 3, I offer a philosophical evaluation of the views which I have attributed to Heidegger: I locate his argument in relation to Kant’s work on logic and to contemporary pragmatism.