Overcoming the Tradition: Heidegger and Dewey

Abstract

X HILOSOPHERS who envy scientists think that philosophy should deal only with problems formulated in neutral terms?terms satis factory to all those who argue for competing solutions. Without common problems and without argument, it would seem, we have no professional discipline, nor even a method for disciplining our own thoughts. Without discipline, we presumably have mysticism, or poetry, or inspiration?at any rate, something which permits an escape from our intellectual responsibilities. Heidegger is frequently criticized for having avoided these responsibilities. His defenders reply that what he has avoided is not the responsibility of the thinker, but simply the tradition of metaphysics or ontology. Consider the following typical passage:

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