Abstract

Presented at the international conference "Language, Languages and Post-Cognitivism" in Venice, 15 July 2022. In my talk, I present an original interpretation of the late Heidegger as a genuine ontology of situatedness. I start out by showing the (concealed) early "heideggerian" roots of the current "4E"-paradigm in philosophy of mind and cognitive science with regard to world-disclosure and language. In the main part of my talk, I try to demonstrate how enactivism is too action-centered to adequately account for the embeddedness and phenomenality of language. In return, I sketch four ontological aspects of human situations from a late Heidegger point of view. Finally, I argue that language is the basic structure of such human situatedness, and that art, instead of ordinary language, opens the way for its understanding.(© Adrian Wieczorek)