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Our next postgraduate Work in Progress (WiP) seminar is taking place this Thursday 23rd November from 5-6:15 PM in S2.77 and on Teams. Fridolin Neumann will present 'Heidegger on Kant and Ontological Intuition'. Everyone welcome!

Abstract:

In the 1920s and 1930s, Heidegger intensively engaged with Kant鈥檚 philosophy in a way that he himself acknowledges as 鈥渧iolent鈥� since it always attempts to capture the unsaid in the written word. My talk revolves around a crucial claim Heidegger makes about Kant鈥檚 theory of cognition, evoking discomfort in every loyal Kantian: 鈥渒nowing is primarily intuiting [Erkennen ist prim盲r Anschauen].鈥� I argue that in order to understand what is at stake here this claim must be interpreted along the lines of Heidegger鈥檚 distinction between ontic and ontological cognition (that is, cognition of entities on the one hand and cognition of being transcendentally determining our encounter with entities on the other hand). As I propose, the supposed primacy of intuition mainly refers to ontological cognition and hereby offers an account of human responsiveness to ontological norms which determine our ontic experience of entities in the first place. In Heidegger鈥檚 account, this (ontological) responsiveness is cashed out in terms of intuition which is structurally similar to (ontic) intuition involved in sensible perception. I proceed by first elaborating on the distinction between ontic and ontological cognition to then argue why Heidegger鈥檚 thesis about intuition should be understood as referring to the latter. After that, I sketch what it means to understand ontological cognition in terms of intuition.