[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

[Charles Brown]

Ted Winslow :
Two alternatives to Heidegger's critique of modern science -  
Husserl's phenomenology and Whitehead's philosophy of organism - make  
experience the ultimate ground for rational belief, including  
rational beliefs about the nature of "being" in general and "human  
being" in particular.  What they dispute are particular claims about  
experience and reality taken for granted in Western science since the  
17th century.

They elaborate a conception of human being as a potentially  
"transcendental subject" defined as a subject whose "experience" is  
of a kind capable of grounding universally valid claims. 

^^^^^
CB; Whence the source of this potential in humans ? Isn't it our sociality ?
Transcendental subjectivity is grounded in transgenerational sociality,
culture.  Do they demystify this concept of "transcendental subject" ?

^^^^^^

 As part of  
the argument defending this, they point out that the logical  
implication of the conventional concept of experience they are  
disputing is "solipsism of the present moment", an implication they  
treat as a reductio ad absurdum.