Why are you so petrified of silence?Here can you handle this?Did you think about your bills, you ex, your deadlinesOr when you think you’re going to die?Or did you long for the next distraction? (Alanis Morisette) When I wrote my MA thesis on Heidegger back in 2002, I took my basic orientation from William McNeil’s … Heidegger and the History of Personhood: How Humanity Became Alienated from Itself

I did my MA thesis on Heidegger and the Greeks. Here are my Secular Frontier posts on Heidegger’s reading of the history of Philosophy: Heidegger and the History of Personhood: How Humanity Became Alienated from Itself Proving Heidegger: A Case Study of Parousia in Plato’s Phaedo My Sorbonne Talk on Heidegger and Kant: Causality (2/2) … (INDEX) Heidegger’s Philosophical Encounters with the History of Philosophy

Abstract: One of the exciting challenges in Heidegger studies is engaging him as a Historian of Philosophy, not only piecing together what Heidegger said about the tradition, but then attempting to show Heidegger’s interpretation to be compelling by examining the thinker he engages with.  In this essay, I will be looking at Plato’s use of … Proving Heidegger: A Case Study of Parousia in Plato’s Phaedo

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I participated in a yearlong seminar of presentations for young researchers on the topic of Transcendental Idealism through the Sorbonne.  The below is based on my presentation. The gauntlet of Hume that awakened Kant from his dogmatic slumber was centered around the problem of causation, and more generally how synthetic a priori judgments are possible.  … My Sorbonne Talk on Heidegger and Kant: Causality

The Biblical Studies Carnival is out today and I have a contribution  in it.  Check it out: https://readingacts.com/2025/09/01/biblical-studies-carnival-228-for-july-and-august-2025/