Being-in-the-World Beyond Dreyfus: Bringing Hermeneutics to Embodied Cognition
Philosophia April 1, 2025 G. Cruz, M. Heras-Escribano
In his work, Hubert L. Dreyfus identified Heidegger’s notion of being-in-the-world with skillful bodily adjustment, i.e. skillful coping. This interpretation has been very influential in the literature, especially for embodied and situated cognition. In this article we challenge such identification, as we think that it overlooks the hermeneutic dimension of Heidegger’s thought in which...