Edward Witherspoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5968542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Witherspoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Witherspoon |
| SIGNATURE | WITHERSPOON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0970-3613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Living Contradictions
In his Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being, Filippo Casati argues that Heidegger’s investigation of Being generates a family of paradoxes. According to Casati, Heidegger’s fundamental philosophical commitments entail several contradictions, such as that Being both is and is not an entity, and that Being both can and cannot be the topic of assertions. Most previous interpreters who have become aware of these paradoxes have tried to show that …
On not acknowledging an animal’s wound
Stephan Mulhall has a rare gift for bringing literary texts into dialogue with philosophical ones in ways that are mutually illuminating. In The Wounded Animal, he employs his talent on J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals and a wide variety of philosophical writing, including works by Cora Diamond and Stanley Cavell. Mulhall draws our attention to the wound borne by Elizabeth Costello, the protagonist of Coetzee’s story: she is profoundly alienat…
Conceptions of Nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein
Heidegger's Concept of Truth
Book Review| July 01 2002 Heidegger's Concept of Truth Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Heidegger's Concept of Truth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxx, 462. Edward Witherspoon Edward Witherspoon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 449–452. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-449 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Edward Witherspoon; Hei…
Heidegger's Concept of Truth
Introduction 1. The logical conception of truth: the logical prejudice and Lotze's concept of validity 2. The phenomenological conception of truth 3. The hermeneutic understanding of truth: the critical appropriation of Aristotle's analysis of truth and assertions 4. The timeliness of existential truth: disclosing the sense of being 5. Disclosedness, transcendental philosophy and methodological deliberations Index
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Heidegger's Concept of Truth
Book Review| July 01 2002 Heidegger's Concept of Truth Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Heidegger's Concept of Truth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxx, 462. Edward Witherspoon Edward Witherspoon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 449–452. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-3-449 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Edward Witherspoon; Hei…
Heidegger's Concept of Truth
Introduction 1. The logical conception of truth: the logical prejudice and Lotze's concept of validity 2. The phenomenological conception of truth 3. The hermeneutic understanding of truth: the critical appropriation of Aristotle's analysis of truth and assertions 4. The timeliness of existential truth: disclosing the sense of being 5. Disclosedness, transcendental philosophy and methodological deliberations Index
Conceptions of Nonsense in Carnap and Wittgenstein
On not acknowledging an animal’s wound
Stephan Mulhall has a rare gift for bringing literary texts into dialogue with philosophical ones in ways that are mutually illuminating. In The Wounded Animal, he employs his talent on J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals and a wide variety of philosophical writing, including works by Cora Diamond and Stanley Cavell. Mulhall draws our attention to the wound borne by Elizabeth Costello, the protagonist of Coetzee’s story: she is profoundly alienat…
Living Contradictions
In his Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being, Filippo Casati argues that Heidegger’s investigation of Being generates a family of paradoxes. According to Casati, Heidegger’s fundamental philosophical commitments entail several contradictions, such as that Being both is and is not an entity, and that Being both can and cannot be the topic of assertions. Most previous interpreters who have become aware of these paradoxes have tried to show that …
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