Mark Okrent
Biographic Data
| ID | 968870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Okrent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Okrent |
| SIGNATURE | OKRENT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bates College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4223-6014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the concept of ‘actively working at making a living’
Richard Dawkins has suggested that the explananda of Darwinian explanations are the existence and character of entities that actively work at making a living. This paper discusses three issues related to this suggestion. First, it offers an account of what it is to actively work at making a living in terms of counterfactuals. Second, the paper articulates why it is that the existence and character of entities that actively work at making a living…
Equipment, World, and Language
Being-in-the-World
Heidegger's Pragmatism
Heidegger's Pragmatism deals with the relation between Martin Heidegger's early analysis of intentionality and his eventual rejection of metaphysics. Arguing for the essentially pragmatic nature of the early Heidegger's discussion of understanding, Mark Okrent shows that Heidegger's subsequent critique of metaphysics follows directly from his long-held pragmatic understanding of intentionality. Heidegger's Pragmatism is written with a clarity tha…
Heidegger's Pragmatism
Individuation and Intentional Ascriptions
My conclusion, then, is that the individuals, or 'tokens', of which our sentences are true are just as 'relative' to the level of description as are the kinds or 'types' into which those sentences sort them. The world does not come metaphysically categorized, prior to, and independent of any specific description resources which is not to say that these individuals (and categories) aren't perfectly genuine and objective, once the language is speci…
Heidegger's Pragmatism
The becoming of being
The becoming of being
Individuation and Intentional Ascriptions
My conclusion, then, is that the individuals, or 'tokens', of which our sentences are true are just as 'relative' to the level of description as are the kinds or 'types' into which those sentences sort them. The world does not come metaphysically categorized, prior to, and independent of any specific description resources which is not to say that these individuals (and categories) aren't perfectly genuine and objective, once the language is speci…
Heidegger's Pragmatism
Heidegger's Pragmatism
Heidegger's Pragmatism deals with the relation between Martin Heidegger's early analysis of intentionality and his eventual rejection of metaphysics. Arguing for the essentially pragmatic nature of the early Heidegger's discussion of understanding, Mark Okrent shows that Heidegger's subsequent critique of metaphysics follows directly from his long-held pragmatic understanding of intentionality. Heidegger's Pragmatism is written with a clarity tha…
Heidegger's Pragmatism
Being-in-the-World
Equipment, World, and Language
On the concept of ‘actively working at making a living’
Richard Dawkins has suggested that the explananda of Darwinian explanations are the existence and character of entities that actively work at making a living. This paper discusses three issues related to this suggestion. First, it offers an account of what it is to actively work at making a living in terms of counterfactuals. Second, the paper articulates why it is that the existence and character of entities that actively work at making a living…
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Pragmatism (3 works) · Contemporary philosophy (2 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (2 works) · General interest (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2 works)