Woolf Public Seminar | Post-Kantian Philosophy | Tarek Dika | Problems in Heidegger's History of Metaphysics

​Speaker: Prof. Tarek Dika (University of Toronto)

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​Title: Problems in Heidegger's History of Metaphysics

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​Abstract: Heidegger argues that temporality is the horizon whereby being is understood throughout the history of metaphysics. Via interpretations of Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant, I argue that Heidegger's interpretation of the history of metaphysics encounters difficulties that place considerable pressure on his thesis that temporality is the sense of being in general.

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​Bio: Tarek Dika is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto (St. George). He specializes in early modern philosophy and science and German and French phenomenology. He is the author of Descartes's Method: The Formation of the Subject of Science (OUP, 2023) and Heidegger and the Temporal Interpretation of Being (forthcoming, CUP), together with a series of articles on both figures.

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​The seminars welcome all interested attendees. During these sessions, presenters deliver work-in-progress academic papers, followed by a structured Q&A conducted by a convenor. Woolf students are invited to ask questions first, followed by Woolf faculty, then public attendees.