Dreyfus' Heidegger Berkeley 185 Course discussion group
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Dreyfus' Heidegger Berkeley 185 Course discussion group
I was wondering whether anybody on here would be interested in creating an online discussion group for Hubert Dreyfus' Berkelely 185 Philosophy course on Being and Time which is available as a free podcast from iTunes, and the syllabus also available online (I am not able to post links yet, but they are available).
I was thinking that we could create a sort of open blog on wordpress, or maybe a discussion group on google groups, to discuss each week - if, that is, anyone else is interested in getting to grips with Heidegger. It would be possible to set up an entry for each week so that people can move at their own speed with it and then contribute back to those who are struggling etc. It would be great if we could get a large group of people to contribute from different perspectives, especially if there is a varied focus in terms of secondary literature.
It is worth bearing in mind that you need to be relatively well informed in terms of at least some other key figures - whether that means Aristotle or Descartes, Derrida or Husserl - you are going to need some decent philosophical standing from which to approach this to get enough out of it to make it worth while.
That said, I really think that from what I have listen too so far that this really is a brilliant course, but one that would benefit from some sort of group discussion. I thought I would air the suggestion here and if people liked the it I thought I would post it some other places as well.
So what do you think, does this sound like a good idea?
Cheers,
Sam
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I was not trying to put you off. I apologize if it came off that way. Anyways, Russell and Quine are from the 20th (Quine passed away in 2000), so they couldn't be the key philosophers of this century. Russell is one of the main contributers in revolutionizing logic, so I would hardly call his project a failure. Sure, logic wasn't ultimately reducible to logic, but that's not the point. If being wrong in a few areas made a bad philosopher, then there has never been a good philosopher. As far as Being and Time, yes, I understand it. I'm not going to lie and said I've read all of it, but I have read through essential parts. To give an extremely short summary, it's a polemic against representationalism and Cartesianism. He wants to contend that the Cartesian way of looking at human beings is fundamentally wrong (and thus by doing this he dissolves a whole host of philosophical problems [mind-body, the external world, etc.]). One way of doing this is by showing how we are in our everyday averageness. There, objects are ready-to-hand. Objects are tools, not things we go on theorizing about etc. etc. you know all this already. I just feel that there are no arguments. It's just a bunch of assertions dressed up in fancy language-terminology. I believe that philosophy is defined by its arguments, and that nothing without argument cannot be properly called 'philosophy'.Kafkaontheshore wrote:I can't measure the extent to which I disagree with that statement! Who do you think are the key philosophers this century then? Quine maybe? Russell? I mean their projects are just manifest failures! All the important Anglo-American philosophers that are around today - McDowell, Brandom, Pippin, Davidson (until recently Rorty) etc. - would just fundamentally disagree with such a statement. And such a broad one; I mean the ignorance of the continental tradition has led anglo-american philosophy down such an utterly pointless, empty path. It isn't until Sellars that things got moving again in the US - Wittgenstein and Austin in the UK - and Sellars himself is just reiterating the Hegelian point, no doubt somebody else who to you is simply not worth reading. I'd be interested to know how much of B+T you have even attempted to read and to really understand. Nonetheless, I don't mean this to be a argument - if your not interested thats fine, but please don't write ignorant statements to put off other people.
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