Friedman forces every philosopher to ask: Do my methods (formal logic, hermeneutics, deconstruction) illegitimately exclude other ways of meaning? Reading the PDF gives you a masterclass in meta-philosophy.
In the spring of 1929, a small Swiss resort town called Davos became the unlikely epicenter of a philosophical earthquake. It was here, at the Second Davos University Conference, that two of the most significant thinkers of the era— (the neo-Kantian humanist) and Martin Heidegger (the rising star of existential phenomenology)—engaged in a historic debate. But the drama did not end there. Watching from the audience was a young, razor-sharp logician from the Vienna Circle: Rudolf Carnap .
: Friedman argues that the split was not inevitable but resulted from how each philosopher responded to the "Kant-crisis" of the 1920s.
