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.
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