File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9806, message 26


Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 09:17:31 -0700
From: RTG <guevara-AT-rain.org>
Subject: WhatAboutDreyfus?


sorry stuart...i'd not seen your follow-up post.


>It seems to me that Dreyfus wants to read H as a Californian pragmatist, to
>use him in debates about the philosophy of mind and especially to critique
>the AI model. I am not the right person to elaborate this at length as my
>research interests in H are quite a way from the philosophy of mind. As
>before, the best critiques I have seen are in Inquiry, notably Frederick
>Olafson, 'H a la Wittgenstein, or "Coping" with Professor Dreyfus' and a
>reply by Taylor Carman (both in Vol 37) and Carleton B. Christensen,
>'Getting H Off the West Coast' (Vol 41).


from what i've seen so far i don't get that dreyfus is talking philosophy
of mind.  are you suggesting that dreyfus does so?  and if so, what is
philosophy of mind as you speak of it?

also - can you say more about "getting H off the west coast" and
"california pragmatists."



>Dreyfus gave a paper on Heidegger at a recent conference at the University
>of Essex, and some of the responses were similarly critical.


in the way you touch on above?


thanks in advance stuart....


>On a more
>positive note I am indebted to Dreyfus for providing me with a way into
>Heidegger and for his work on the links between H and Foucault - which is
>essentially the topic of my (nearly completed) PhD. Dreyfus has a much
>promised but oft-postponed book on this relation in the pipeline - though
>having spoken to him fairly recently a second edition of Being-in-the-World
>is due first.
>
>I'd agree with the earlier mail by Henk. Kisiel is the best work on B&T but
>my guess is it would leave the beginner rather confused. Dreyfus or Stephen
>Mulhall's Routledge guidebook would be my recommendations to those seeking a
>way in.


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