On Being with Others Book

	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	The threat of scepticism	7
	A sceptical argument	11
	The subject of scepticism	19
2	Reframing scepticism I: J. L. Austin	24
	Austin and the problem of other minds	25
	Austin and the metaphysical legacy of Frege's philosophy	33
3	Reframing scepticism II: Heidegger	43
	Heidegger and the tradition	44
	Heidegger's analysis of Dasein	50
	Splitting the phenomenon of being-with	56
	Conclusion	60
4	The human animal	61
	The being of animals	62
	The spirit of the lion	70
5	Philosophy and the ideal of exactness	76
	Derrida and the affirmation of dissemination	77
	Wittgenstein and the Augustinian picture of language	83
6	Rules and events of language	93
	The phenomenon of language	94
	The limits of calculability	99
7	Communication and iterability	107
	Repetitions of the same	108
	Writing and communication	115
	Transforming the traditional model of communication	120
8	Reading the other	128
	Criteria and other minds	129
	McDowell on other minds	136
	On being with others	140
	Closing remarks	148
	Notes	153
	Bibliography	164
	Index	169