Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Carnap: Radical Phenomenology, Logical Positivism and the Roots of the Continental/Analytic Divide

(This  essay was published in Philosophy Today, Volume 51, Number 3, Fall 2007, pp. 241-260.) It would be too simple to assert that the root of the “Continental/Analytic divide” grew out from the “dispute” between Heidegger and Carnap.  There are other, earlier candidates for this “divide” through which significant topoi separated off into differing currents … Continue reading Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Carnap: Radical Phenomenology, Logical Positivism and the Roots of the Continental/Analytic Divide