The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk

(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)

by

Sacha Golob (University of Cambridge)

on

`Heidegger, Kant and Pragmatism`

Tuesday, 25 October, 2011, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412

ABSTRACT

 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.