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Focusing on philosophical problems non-reductionistically
The equiprimordiality of philosophy
The limitations of Cartesianism
Description of reading
Description of chess
4 Fundierung
Discussion of the term ‘existence’
Bracketing as non-reductionist focusing
Sense from words
The airline schedule and the bridge game
5 ‘Reality’
The problem of sense
Discussion of being-in-the-world
Arbitrariness vs. context dependence
Recognizing reductionist anxiety
The newspaper
Description of a key
Description of creativity
Discussion of phenomenological description
6 The method of phenomenological investigation
Discussion of our approach to phenomenology
PART II
Analysis of context
1 Discussion of role of context in phenomenological investigation
Passengers at the airport
Books, art, and reductionism
Reductionism and Artificial Intelligence research
A reductionist description of college
Reductionism in science
2 Fundierung and the trump card
Layering of Fundierung and equiprimordiality
The Coke can and the blackboard
Passenger on a plane
The confession
The hammer
The signature
The computer program and the pen
Looking at a student and playing cards
The letter and the dinosaur bones
3 Fundierung as a worldly phenomenon
An incontrovertible fact
The problem of how things relate
The mind/brain paradox as a confusion of layers
Introducing the ontological difference
4 Function
The ‘role’
The laundry
Triangle on the blackboard
Seeing vs. viewing
Wine tasting
Mark vs. expression
Recognizing a car
Letting
5 The method and vocabulary of phenomenological investigation
Keyness
Longfellow Bridge
Decontextualization
The situation
Objects as networks of functions
The knife
Equiprimordiality
Ontic and ontological
6 Eidos
Viewing
The issue of the ‘existence’
‘As’
Knowledge
Bracketing and learning
A decontextualizing process
Phenomenology of learning
PART III
Analysis of project
1 Preliminary discussion of time
2 Identity
3 Introduction to Dasein
The basic idea of Dasein
The project
Dealing with
Playing the piano
The alreadiness of Dasein’s being-in-the-world
The actor in a context
Comments on the project
The class
4 Discussion of distance
5 The structure of projects
Project and being-in-the-world
Grasp
Spoken language
The problem of relationship
The projectual sense of grasp
Ontological modes of familiarization
Sizing-up as potentially non-rational
6 Mood
Fear
Emotional reductionism
The emotional already
7 Disclosure
Modes of understanding
Phenomenological investigation and scientific reasoning
Some notes on the method
Evidence and truth
PART IV
Transcendence
1 Transcendence and time constitution
Beyonding
The role of context in transcendence
Discussion of time
The right/left wing split in phenomenology
2 The jump
The primordial Ereignis
Transcendence, facticity, and failure
3 Time constitution
History of the philosophical problem of time
4 The nought
Angst
Thrownness
5 Projectual ek-stases
PART V
Worldliness
1 Das Man
The public Dasein
Positive forms of das Man
An escape into the already
The disclosure of das Man by mood
2 Co-being and the ‘Who’
The unity of Dasein
To ‘be with’
Co-being as an independent ontological phenomenon
The freedom of the other
To be ‘with’ objects
Care
3 Angst and the ‘not quite’
Sense dependence of all of Dasein’s projects
Inauthentic Angst and emotional reductionism
4 The fall
PART VI
Authenticity
1 Authentic Angst
2 At-homeness
Familiarity
Intelligence
General discussion of authenticity
3 Being-to
4 The call
Friendship and loving
Being lost
The call as a mode of disclosure
5 Decision
The requirement of choice of an active project
Letting as the ontological project
PART VII
Summary
PART VIII
Appendices
1 Overview and commentary of other works
2 Examples of phenomenological descriptions
Stickiness
Hole
Serious
Necktie
Casualness
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