Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Carnap

  • Carnap and Clarity

    This entry is installment #2 in a Carnap versus Heidegger series.  Here is the first in the series.  It couldn't hurt to at least skim through it. Part of what I am up to is an exploration of the origin and nature of the analytic-Continental split. To quote from the first installment: If I were…

  • Heidegger, Carnap, Das Nichts, and the Analytic-Continental Schism

    One of the reasons I gave this weblog the title Maverick Philosopher is because I align neither with the analytic nor with the Continental camp.  Study everything, I say, and drink from every stream.  Reverting to the camp metaphor, when did the camps become two?  In dead earnest this occurred when Heidegger burst onto the…