Simon Critchley has the first of an eight-part series of blog postings on Heidegger’s Being and Time. Will he discuss the influence Heidegger has had on non-Cartesian cognitive science? We will see. Unlikely as it sounds, Gilbert Ryle’s critical notice (Mind XXXVIII 1929, 355-370) warmly welcomed Sein und Zeit despite the inherent difficulties of the work (usually misappropriated or vulgarized in contexts where there is no philosophical culture):
As Critchley puts it: “Reading Being and Time can sometimes feel like wading through a conceptual mud of baroque and unfamiliar concepts.” Check out the BBC documentary on Heidegger.
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