Heidegger on Logic

This volume examines the implications of Heidegger's thinking for logic and for speaking logically of being in contrast to beings.

Filippo Casati (Edited by), Daniel Dahlstrom (Edited by)

9781108835794, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 September 2022

300 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.1 cm, 0.57 kg

Does adherence to the principles of logic commit us to a particular way of viewing the world? Or are there ways of being – ways of behaving in the world, including ways of thinking, feeling, and speaking – that ground the normative constraints that logic imposes? Does the fact that assertions, the traditional elements of logic, are typically made about beings present a problem for metaphysical (or post-metaphysical) prospects of making assertions meaningfully about being? Does thinking about being (as opposed to beings) accordingly require revising or restricting logic's reach – and, if so, how is this possible? Or is there something precious about the very idea of thinking the limits of thinking? Contemporary scholars have become increasing sensitive to how Heidegger, much like Wittgenstein, instructively poses such questions. Heidegger on Logic is a collection of new essays by leading scholars who critically ponder the efficacy of his responses to them.

Part I. Normativity, the Phenomenology of Assertions, and Productive Logic: 1. Heidegger's phenomenology and the normativity of logic Steven Crowell
2. Heidegger on the change-over in assertions Stephan Käufer
3. Heidegger's productive logic Richard Polt
Part II. Language, Logic, and Nonsense: 4. Logic, language, and the question of method in Heidegger Sacha Golob
5. Nonsense at work: Heidegger, the Logical, and the Ontological David R. Cerbone
6. Heidegger's 'destruction' of traditional logic Françoise Dastur
Part III. Paradox, the Prospects for Ontology, and Beyond: 7. Heidegger, being, and all that is and is so: On paradoxes, and questions, of being Denis McManus
8. Logic and attunement: Reading Heidegger through Priest and Wittgenstein Edward Witherspoon
9. Heidegger and the authority of logic Kris McDaniel
10. On the limits and possibilities of human thinking Filippo Casati
Part IV. Logical Principles and the Question of Being: 11. The resonant principle of reason K. A. Withy
12. Heidegger's contradictions Daniel O. Dahlstrom.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: logic [HPL], Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology [HPJ], Western philosophy, from c 1900 - [HPCF]