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Phenomenology and Metaphysics: On Moore’s Heidegger
- Philosophical Topics
- University of Arkansas Press
- Volume 43, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Fall 2015
- pp. 269-278
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
Moore claims, refreshingly, that Heidegger’s Being and Time is a metaphysical work. Moore also claims, strikingly, that Heidegger, indeed phenomenology more generally, would be better off dropping its metaphysical pretensions. Moore objects that phenomenology can have genuine metaphysical import only by incurring commitment to an untenable idealism. I defend Heidegger against this objection. Heideggerian phenomenology is metaphysical—it raises the question of, and makes commitments about, what it is for things to be—without any untenable idealism.