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Ontological pluralism and the 'Being and Time' project

Ontological pluralism and the 'Being and Time' project
Ontological pluralism and the 'Being and Time' project
This paper identifies a problem which the project that Heidegger set himself in Being and Time aimed to solve. The problem concerns the unity of the concept of “Being in general,” the integrity of the very notion of “Dasein,” and the possibility of a perspective from which the philosopher can do her work. Heidegger’s own attempt to solve this problem turns on the claim that time is “the possible horizon for any understanding whatsoever of Being” (Sein und Zeit 1), time supposedly thereby ‘mak[ing] ontology possible” (Basic Problems of Phenomenology 228). I elucidate the problem by discussing how it emerges also in Russell (in reflecting on types) and Aristotle (in discussing whether Being is 'said in many ways'), by identifying challenges that attempted solutions to it face, and by juxtaposing the issues it raises with ones faced by McDaniel’s and Turner’s recent attempts to defend what they call “ontological pluralism”.
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McManus, Denis
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McManus, Denis
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McManus, Denis (2013) Ontological pluralism and the 'Being and Time' project. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 51 (4), 651-673. (doi:10.1353/hph.2013.0079).

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This paper identifies a problem which the project that Heidegger set himself in Being and Time aimed to solve. The problem concerns the unity of the concept of “Being in general,” the integrity of the very notion of “Dasein,” and the possibility of a perspective from which the philosopher can do her work. Heidegger’s own attempt to solve this problem turns on the claim that time is “the possible horizon for any understanding whatsoever of Being” (Sein und Zeit 1), time supposedly thereby ‘mak[ing] ontology possible” (Basic Problems of Phenomenology 228). I elucidate the problem by discussing how it emerges also in Russell (in reflecting on types) and Aristotle (in discussing whether Being is 'said in many ways'), by identifying challenges that attempted solutions to it face, and by juxtaposing the issues it raises with ones faced by McDaniel’s and Turner’s recent attempts to defend what they call “ontological pluralism”.

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Published date: October 2013
Organisations: Philosophy

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Local EPrints ID: 346860
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/346860
ISSN: 1538-4586
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Date deposited: 22 Jan 2013 15:06
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 12:42

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