Edward Minar 

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Office: Main 313
Phone: (479) 575-8712
eminar@uark.edu
Office hours Fall 2007:  TR 11:00-12:30,  and by appointment

Ed Minar's main areas are in history of analytic philosophy, epistemology, and continental philosophy. He has written on the later Wittgenstein and on Heidegger; one of his current projects is to complete a book on Wittgensteinian responses to various forms of skepticism. 
 
 

Some Recent Publications:

  • "How to Read Wittgenstein's On Certainty". (forthcoming).
  • "Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Skepticism". (2001). Harvard Review of Philosophy.
  • "Heidegger's Response to Skepticism in Being and Time". (2001). In J. Floyd and S. Shieh, eds., Future Pasts: Reflections on the History and Nature of Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
  • "The Thinging of the Thing: A Late Heideggerian Response to Skepticism?". (1999). Philosophical Topics 27, 2.
  • "Wittgenstein on the Metaphysics of the Self: The Dialectic of Solipsism in Philosophical Investigations". (1998). Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 79, 4, pp. 329-354. 


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