Heidegger on Logic

by Filippo Casati (Editor), Daniel Dahlstrom (Editor)

Overview

Does adherence to the principles of logic commit us to a particular way of viewing the world? Or are there ways of being – ways of behaving in the world, including ways of thinking, feeling, and speaking – that ground the normative constraints that logic imposes? Does the fact that assertions, the traditional elements of logic, are typically made about beings present a problem for metaphysical (or post-metaphysical) prospects of making assertions meaningfully about being? Does thinking about being (as opposed to beings) accordingly require revising or restricting logic's reach – and, if so, how is this possible? Or is there something precious about the very idea of thinking the limits of thinking? Contemporary scholars have become increasing sensitive to how Heidegger, much like Wittgenstein, instructively poses such questions. Heidegger on Logic is a collection of new essays by leading scholars who critically ponder the efficacy of his responses to them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108798792
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/25/2024
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Filippo Casati is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lehigh University. He is the author of Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being (2021), and of a number of articles in journals including the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Synthese, Logic et Analyse, Philosophical Topics, and Philosophy Compass.

Daniel O. Dahlstrom is John R. Silber Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He is the author of Heidegger's Concept of Truth (Cambridge, 2001), The Heidegger Dictionary (2013), Identity, Authenticity, and Humility (2017) and many essays, the editor of numerous volumes, and the translator of Mendelssohn, Schiller, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Landmann-Kalischer.

Table of Contents

Part I. Normativity, the Phenomenology of Assertions, and Productive Logic: 1. Heidegger's phenomenology and the normativity of logic Steven Crowell; 2. Heidegger on the change-over in assertions Stephan Käufer; 3. Heidegger's productive logic Richard Polt; Part II. Language, Logic, and Nonsense: 4. Logic, language, and the question of method in Heidegger Sacha Golob; 5. Nonsense at work: Heidegger, the Logical, and the Ontological David R. Cerbone; 6. Heidegger's 'destruction' of traditional logic Françoise Dastur; Part III. Paradox, the Prospects for Ontology, and Beyond: 7. Heidegger, being, and all that is and is so: On paradoxes, and questions, of being Denis McManus; 8. Logic and attunement: Reading Heidegger through Priest and Wittgenstein Edward Witherspoon; 9. Heidegger and the authority of logic Kris McDaniel; 10. On the limits and possibilities of human thinking Filippo Casati; Part IV. Logical Principles and the Question of Being: 11. The resonant principle of reason K. A. Withy; 12. Heidegger's contradictions Daniel O. Dahlstrom.