Logic, Language and the Question of Method in Heidegger

TY - CHAP

T1 - Logic, Language and the Question of Method in Heidegger

AU - Golob, Sacha

PY - 2021/3/12

Y1 - 2021/3/12

N2 - This paper examines the relationship between “logic,” language, and methodology in Heidegger. I begin by contrasting two ways in which one might understand that relationship: Dummett’s position as articulated in The Logical Basis of Metaphysics and Dreyfus’ influential reconstruction of Sein und Zeit. Focusing on Sein und Zeit §33, I distinguish Heidegger’s own view from each of these. First, drawing on his discussions of “grammar,” I show where and why he diverges not just from someone like Dummett, but also from Kant. Second, I argue for the difference between my approach and the Dreyfusian one: for Dreyfus, Heidegger’s attack on logic is ultimately a question of content, for me it is ultimately a question of method. I close by indicating how this analysis might be extended to texts from the 1924 Platon: Sophistes lectures to Die Sprache in the 1950s, paying particular attention to the concept of a “metalanguage.”

AB - This paper examines the relationship between “logic,” language, and methodology in Heidegger. I begin by contrasting two ways in which one might understand that relationship: Dummett’s position as articulated in The Logical Basis of Metaphysics and Dreyfus’ influential reconstruction of Sein und Zeit. Focusing on Sein und Zeit §33, I distinguish Heidegger’s own view from each of these. First, drawing on his discussions of “grammar,” I show where and why he diverges not just from someone like Dummett, but also from Kant. Second, I argue for the difference between my approach and the Dreyfusian one: for Dreyfus, Heidegger’s attack on logic is ultimately a question of content, for me it is ultimately a question of method. I close by indicating how this analysis might be extended to texts from the 1924 Platon: Sophistes lectures to Die Sprache in the 1950s, paying particular attention to the concept of a “metalanguage.”

M3 - Chapter

BT - Heidegger on Logic

PB - Oxford Univerity Press; Oxford

ER -