MICHAEL WHEELER Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005 432 pages, ISBN: 0262232405 (hbk); $35.00 When I was teaching at MIT in the 1960s, students from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory would come to ...

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Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing it Would Require Making it More Heideggerian

Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian

In his Kant interpretations of the late 1920s and in Being and Time, Heidegger develops two distinct, yet related, derivations of the possibility of judgment from temporal conditions. This paper presents each derivation, establishes the strict analogy between the two, and uses it to explain the structure and shortcoming of the interpretation of ecstatic temporality as the unitary ground of objective experience.

Schemata, Hammers, and Time: Heidegger's Two Derivations of Judgment

Heidegger's Moral Ontology offers the first comprehensive account of the ethical issues that underwrite Heidegger's efforts to develop a novel account of human existence. Drawing from a wide array of source materials from the period leading up to the publication of Being and Time (1919–1927), and in conversation with ancient, modern, and contemporary contributions to moral philosophy, James D. Reid brings Heidegger's early philosophy into fruitful dialogue with the history of ethics, and sheds fresh light on such familiar topics as Heidegger's critique of Husserl, his engagement with Aristotle, his account of mortality, the role played by Kant in the genesis of Being and Time, and Heidegger's early reflections on philosophical language and concepts. This lively book will appeal to all who are interested in Heidegger's early phenomenology and in his thought more generally, as well as to those interested in the nature, scope, and foundations of ethical life.

Heidegger's Moral Ontology

"Doch das Sein-was ist das Sein? Es ist Es sclbst" (Heidegger 1978, 328 ).2 Heidegger seeks to make the experience of Being as being Itsel f, as what "is Itself' . Thi s tautological and enigmatic formulation, void of content and full of questions, concentrates, in an exemplary way, Heidegger's think ing on language. It does not pre sent the task of thinking as having a doctrinal base. Rather, it is grounded on the experience that Being is Itself. Thi s task demands necessarily another one, namel y, the task of learning to articulate this experience. The tautological expression "Being as being Itself' presents Being as the unpronounceable, as that which eludes or even resists all saying. How should it be possible then to think about what cannot be said? Is thinking about what cannot be said any less absurd than growing stones? Heidegger claims that the task involves the thinking and saying that emerge from this experience. The phrase "Being is itself ' expresses what Heidegger elsewhere explicitly named "experience" (Erfahrung) . The endless and often polemical debate about the relationship between thought and language receives, with Heidegger's existential phenomenology, the demand that it be recast from the perspective of experience. If the main problem of the philosophy of logic centers on the relationship between thought and language, then Heidegger can be read as retrieving a more fundamental question, namely, an inquiry into how one is to prepare a thinking and saying of experience. The purpose of this paper is to indicate some aspects of this task. No attempt will be made to exhaust this question by pursuing the whole corpu s of Heidegger' s writing s. My intention is

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Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing it Would Require Making it More Heideggerian

Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian

Schemata, Hammers, and Time: Heidegger's Two Derivations of Judgment

Heidegger's Moral Ontology

The Poetics of Language: Readings of Heidegger’s On the Way to Language

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