2019 Personality [09]: Heidegger and Comparative Psychology

Lecture on Heidegger and Comparative Psychology.

Topics include:

- Present-at-hand and ready-to-hand
- Being-in-the-world
- Signs and modes of mental reference (icon, index, symbol)
- Rocks (worldless), animals (poor in world), and humans (world forming)
- 'The Human Spark' (and commentary); chimpanzees

#heidegger #martinheidegger #phenomenology

Class: Personality (4th year undergraduate psychology course) taught at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Instructor: Brad Peters, MSc, Psychologist