Heidegger on Science

Description

Although Martin Heidegger is well known for his work on technology, he is not often discussed in the context of science broadly speaking. This volume is the first to showcase diverse perspectives on Heidegger's assessments of the sciences, looking at a number of different ways that Heidegger's writings contribute to questions concerning how we understand the world through science. With particular attention to quantum theory, natural science, technoscience, and a section devoted specifically to investigating what Being and Time has to say about science, the book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of disciplines and traditions. It closes with consideration of questions about sustainability and ethics raised by Heidegger's engagement with the sciences.
Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Translations

Introduction

Part I. Reading Heidegger on Science

1. Why Read Heidegger on Science?
Trish Glazebrook

2. Heidegger’s Critique of Science
William J. Richardson, S. J.

Part II. Quantum Theory

3. Beyond Ontic-Ontological Relations: Gelassenheit, Regnet, and Niels Bohr’s Program of Experimental Quantum Mechanics
Jim Watson

4. Heidegger’s Theses Concerning the Question of the Foundations of the Sciences
Ewald Richter
Translated by Trish Glazebrook and Christine Behme

Part III. Science and the Human Experience

5. From Animal to Dasein: Heidegger and Evolutionary Biology
Lawrence J. Hatab

6. Carnap and Heidegger: Parting Ways in the Philosophy of Science
Patrick A. Heelan

7. Lost Belongings: Heidegger, Naturalism, and Natural Science
David R. Cerbone

Part IV. Technoscience

8. Heidegger’s Philosophy of Science and the Critique of Calculation: Reflective Questioning, Gelassenheit, and Life
Babette E. Babich

9. Gelassenheit: Beyond Techno-Scientific Thinking
Ute Guzzoni

10. Opening Ways of Transformation
Gail Stenstad

Part V. Revisting Being and Time

11. Heidegger and the Empirical Turn in Continental Philosophy of Science
Robert Crease

12. A Supratheoretical PreScientific Hermeneutics of Scientific Discovery
Theodore Kisiel

13. Heidegger’s Philosophy of Science: The Two Essences of Science
John D. Caputo

14. Developments and Implications
Trish Glazebrook

List of Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Philosophie générale
• Philosophie
• Philosophy of science
• History of philosophy

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 23 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781438442693
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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HEIDEGGER ON SCIENCE
E DITED BY
TRISH GLAZEBROOK
S TATE U NIVERSITY OF N EW Y ORK P RESS

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Heidegger on science / [edited by] Trish Glazebrook.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-4267-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Science—Philosophy. 2. Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. I. Glazebrook, Trish.
Q175.H377 2012
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For George and Marion
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank the contributors for their good work and patience during the assembling of the volume. I would particularly like to thank Babette Babich for her advice throughout. Thanks goes also to Michael Bauer and New Scholasticism for their part in granting permission to reprint Father Richardson's paper, and to Brill Publishing on behalf of Martinus Nujhoff, Dordrecht who originally published John Caputo's paper. I also owe gratitude to Jane Bunker at the State University of New York Press for her continuing support of this project, and Andrew Kenyon who shepherded the book to completion. Laurie Searl was also crucial and patient during this process, and Matt Story has been indispensable. Reviewers made extremely helpful comments that have greatly strengthened the volume. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Dalhousie University funded my research in part. Many members of the North American Heidegger Circle provided useful discussion of material contained in my contributions to the volume. Nonetheless, any shortcomings remain my responsibility. Finally, I am grateful to my son, Laird, who showed admirable forbearance when working on this volume cut short our time to play.

COPYRIGHTS
“Heidegger's Philosophy of Science: the Two Essences of Science” by John Caputo is reprinted from Rationality, Relativism and the Human Sciences , eds.
J. Margolis, M. Krausz and R. M. Burian (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1986), 43–60, with permission.
“Heidegger's Critique of Science” by William J. Richardson, S. J. is reprinted from New Scholasticism 42, no. 4 (1968), 511–36, with permission.
ABBREVIATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS

References provide citations of a German text followed by the corresponding page number in an English translation, as indicated below. All references to the Gesamtausgabe are given by “GA” and the volume number. For example, GA 65, 357/250 means Volume 65 of the Gesamtausgabe , page 357, which corresponds to page 250 in the specified English translation.
Where no English reference is given, authors have provided their own translation. Where authors have provided their own translation, although a translation is available, reference to the published translation is given in order that interested readers might examine the context of Heidegger's remarks, although the author's translation may not match the English text verbatim . BW Basic Writings , ed. David Farrell Krell (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993) EM Einführung in die Metaphysik , 5. Auflage (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1987) An Introduction to Metaphysics , tr. Ralph Manheim (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959) FD Die Frage nach dem Ding , 3. Auflage (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1987) Section B.I.5.a)–f 3 ) (S. 50–83) is translated as “Modern Science, Metaphysics, and Mathematics” in BW, 271–305, which reprints with minor changes and deletions the translation at What Is a Thing? trs. W.B. Barton, Jr. and Vera Deutsch (Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1967). Translation citations are to BW. G Gelassenheit , 10. Auflage (Pfullingen: Verlag Günther Neske, 1992) Discourse on Thinking , trs. John M. Anderson and E. Hans Freund (New York: Harper & Row, 1966) GA 1 Frühe Schriften (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1978) GA 2 Sein und Zeit (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1977) Being and Time , trs. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper & Row, 1962) GA 3 Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1991) Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics , tr. Richard Taft (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990) GA 5 Holzwege (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2003) »Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes,« 7–68; “The Origin of the Work of Art,” in PLT, 17–87. »Die Zeit des Weltbildes,« 75–113; “The Age of the World Picture,” in QCT, 115–54. GA 6.1 Nietzsche I (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1996) Nietzsche, Volume 2: The Eternal Recurrence of the Same , ed. David Farrell Krell (New York: Harper & Row, 1984) GA 6.2 Nietzsche II (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997) Nietzsche, Volume 3: The Will to Power as Knowledge and as Metaphysics , ed. David Farrell Krell (New York: Harper & Row, 1987) Nietzsche, Volume 4: Nihilism , ed. David Farrell Krell (New York: Harper & Row, 1982) GA 7 Vorträge und Aufsätze (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000) »Die Frage nach der Technik,« 7–36; “The Question Concerning Technology,” in QCT, 3–35. »Wissenschaft und Besinnung,« 39–65; “Science and Reflection,” in QCT, 155–82. »Bauen Wohnen Denken,« 147–64; “Building, Dwelling, Thinking,” in PLT, 145–61. »Das Ding,« 167–187; “The Thing,” in PLT, 165–86. »… dichterisch wohnet der Mensch …,« 191–208; “… Poetically Man Dwells …,” in PLT, 213–29. »Logos (Heraklit, Fragment 50),« 213–34; (“Logos (Heraclitus, Fragment B 50),”), trs. David Farrell Krell and Frank A. Capuzzi in Early Greek Thinking (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1984), 59–78. GA 9 Wegmarken (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1967) »Was ist Metaphysik?« 103–22; “What Is Metaphysics?” in BW, 93–110. »Vom Wesen des Grundes,« 123–75; “On the Essence of Ground,” in P, 97–135. »Vom Wesen der Wahrheit,« 177–202; “On the Essence of Truth,” in BW, 115–38. »Vom Wesen und Begriff der physis . Aristoteles' Physik B, 1,« 239–301; “On the Essence and Concept of physis in Aristotle's Physics B, I” in P, 183–230. »Brief über den Humanismus,« 313–64; “Letter on Humanism,” in BW, 217–65. »Zur Seinsfrage,« 385–426; “On the Question of Being” in P, 291–322. GA 10 Der Satz vom Grund (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997) The Principle of Reason , tr. Reginald Lily (Bl;oomington: Indiana University Press, 1991) GA 12 Unterwegs zur Sprache (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1985) On the Way to Language , tr. Peter D. Hertz (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), which does not include »Die Sprache,«; “Language,” tr. Albert Hofstadter in PLT, 189–210. GA 13 Aus der Erfahrung des Denkens (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2002) GA 16 Reden und andere Zeugnisse eines Lebensweges 1910–1976 (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000) GA 17 Einführung in die phänomenologische Forschung (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1994) GA 20 Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1979) History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena , tr. Theodore Kisiel (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985) GA 21 Logik. Die Frage nach der Wahrheit (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1976) GA 24 Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1975) The Basic Problems of Phenomenology , tr. Albert Hofstadter (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982) GA 25 Phänomenologische Interpretation von Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1977) Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, trs. Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997) GA 26 Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Logik im Ausgang von Leibniz (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1978) The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic , tr. Michael Heim (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984) GA 27 Einleitung in die Philosophie (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2001) GA 29/30 Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik. Welt—Endlichkeit—Einsamkeit (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2004) The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude , trs. William McNeill and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001) GA 38 Über Logik als Frage nach der Sprache (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1998) GA 41 Die Frage nach dem Ding. Zu Kants Lehre von den transzendentalen Grundsätzen (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1984) Section B.I.5.a)–f 3 ) is translated as “Modern Science, Metaphysics, and Mathematics” in BW, 271–305, which reprints with minor changes and deletions the translation at What Is a Thing? trs. W.B. Barton, Jr. and V