Departmental Research Seminar with Dr Tobias Keiling

Our departmental research seminar talks will take place on Wednesdays during term time from 15:00 to 16:30, in room 005, 48 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN.

This week's speaker is Dr Tobias Keiling from the University of Warwick.

Tobias is an Associate Professor at the university of Warwick and is Co-Director at the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy.

Title: Transcendental Reasoning in Heidegger's Being and Time

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe the form of transcendental reasoning Heidegger uses in Being and Time. Heideggerian transcendental arguments both determine metaphysically necessary conditions and identify different modes in which the necessary can be instantiated. Heidegger uses such arguments to advance the existential analytic by identifying necessary features and conceptual connections between the possibilities of Dasein specifically. These are the existential conditions and existential modes characterizing existence as Dasein’s way of being. I characterize the epistemic value of Heidegger’s arguments as conceptual enrichment and their justificatory structure as phenomenological. Heidegger’s arguments develop a transcendental ontology by identifying different existential conditions and their modes. But these conditions are not a priori. They derive their justification from how well they make sense of phenomena. I conclude by indicating how the explanatory structure of Heidegger’s arguments deviates from Kant’s. Unlike Kant’s, Heidegger’s transcendental arguments do not track the conditions of intelligibility of the world back to a transcendental subject.