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Strange Familiarity: Heidegger on Skill
The Philosophical Significance of Familiarity
Jul 3
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B. Scot Rousse
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Heidegger, Skill, and the Conversational Structure of Human Work
The art of staying human in an automated world
Nov 7, 2025
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B. Scot Rousse
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The Manifold Varieties of Mattering: Heidegger on Dasein (Repost)
The varieties of mattering are manifold. Being and Time seeks to reveal the hidden structures of human being that allow us to interpret being (and…
Aug 25, 2025
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B. Scot Rousse
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Teaching Heidegger and Playing Punk Shows
I’ve been teaching an intense summer course on Heidegger’s Being and Time at UC Berkeley.
Jul 29, 2025
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B. Scot Rousse
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Strange Familiarity, Part Two (Repost)
An overview of the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition and its relevance to Heidegger's ontology.
Apr 26, 2025
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B. Scot Rousse
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Ontology, What is it Good For? (Being and Time, §3)
Heidegger's ambition to make his brand of "fundamental ontology" reign over all other fields of scientific inquiry partakes in the pretensions of…
Feb 14, 2025
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B. Scot Rousse
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“Who’s Asking?” - Spelling out the Question of Being (Being and Time, §2)
Our tendency to inquire into being is continuous with our tendency to wonder whether life has any meaning.
Jan 23, 2025
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B. Scot Rousse
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What is Being? Indeed.
Today we continue our inquiry into being. We dig into Being and Time, section 2: “The Formal Structure of the Question of Being.” We encounter…
Jan 2, 2025
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B. Scot Rousse
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Getting in Touch with Being (Being and Time §1)
This week we focus on the first section of Being and Time, “The Necessity for Explicitly Restating the Question of Being.” This section begins to reveal…
Dec 26, 2024
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B. Scot Rousse
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What is Ontology and Why Does it Matter? Beginning with Heidegger’s Being and Time.
This week, we have the first installment of our exploration of Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927). Today, we are beginning only with the first page of…
Dec 19, 2024
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B. Scot Rousse
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