Dreyfus and ‘coping’: the shadow of ‘con-formity’

Dreyfus, Heidegger and McDowell. The work of Hubert Dreyfus interweaves productively ideas from, among others, Heidegger and Wittgenstein. A central element in Dreyfus’ hugely influential interpretation of the former is the proposal that, if we are to – in some sense – ‘make sense’ of intentionality, then we must recognize what Dreyfus calls the ‘background’. ................
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