Taylor Carman (born 1965) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at

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Education and career

Carman earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University, where he worked with

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, but was also influenced by

Hubert Dreyfus Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (; October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests included phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of bo ...

Philosophical work

Carman's main areas of interest are in the philosophy of

Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th ce ...

and in

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. He is the author of ''Heidegger’s Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse, and Authenticity in Heidegger's'' Being and Time (2003) and ''Merleau-Ponty'' (2008), and the editor of ''The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty'' (2005). He is also co-editor of a philosophy series with Ashgate Publishing called "Intersection: Continental and Analytic Philosophy".

considered Carman to be one of the leading contemporary authorities on Heidegger and on Heidegger's concept of death in particular. Carman was featured, along with Dreyfus, Charles Taylor,

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, Mark Wrathall and Sean Kelly, in the documentary ''

Being in the World ''Being in the World'' is a 2010 documentary film directed by Tao Ruspoli. The film is based on Martin Heidegger's philosophy and is inspired by Hubert Dreyfus. It features a number of prominent philosophers. Philosophers such as Hubert Dreyfus, ...

'' (2010), which explores the phenomenology of everyday life.

References

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