Idle Talk: Dasein and the Inauthentic Machine

Matthew J. Barnard is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. His has written on Heidegger, Bergson, and Kant, and he is the author of Heidegger’s Conception of Freedom: Beyond Cause and Effect (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). He serves on the Executive Committee of the British Society for Phenomenology and edits its podcast. He is currently working on the phenomenology of technology.

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Associate Professor of Philosophy. School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland

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“Swinging and Swaying”: Salvation, God, and the Appropriating Event

Daniel O. Dahlstrom, the John R. Silber Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, is the author of several books and articles on the thought of Martin Heidegger, including the revised edition of The Heidegger Dictionary (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is the first Presiding Officer of the Heidegger Circle and currently serves as co-editor (with Filippo Casati) of Cambridge University Press’ Heidegger Elements series.  In addition to translating Heidegger’s first Marburg lectures (1923), he has translated works of Mendelssohn, Schiller, Hegel, Feuerbach, Husserl, Landmann-Kalischer into English.

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Heidegger and the Cybernetic Hypothesis

I have published four books: Husserl and the Promise of Time (2010), A Momentary Breathlessness in the Sadness of Time (2018), Original Forgiveness (2020), and German Philosophy and the First World War (2023). I am currently working on two book projects: a phenomenology of the afterlife that examines different senses in which, whether individually, collectively, or historically, the dead haunt the living; a study of the impact of the First World War on Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. I am in the final stages of completing two co-authored books: The Erosion of Trust and Truthfulness in the Age of Democratic Uncertainty and We Nuclear People: Responsibility for Nuclear Waste in the Vastness of Time. I have published widely in the areas of phenomenology, ethics, 19th and 20th century philosophy, aesthetics, political philosophy, and literature.

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Why Heidegger?

Anthony Stadlen was born in 1940. He trained as an existential analyst with Aaron Esterson, John Heaton, R.D. Laing, Peter Lomas. He worked in psychiatric hospitals, and has practised privately since 1970. He is recognised as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist by the British Psychotherapy Foundation, an existential psychotherapist by the Society for Existential Analysis, and a daseinsanalyst by the International Federation of Daseinsanalysis; but his method is individual and unique.  Since 1977 he has studied the foundations of “psychotherapy” through historically researching paradigmatic “cases”: Freud’s Cäcilie M.; Katharina; Dora; Rat Man; Binswanger’s Ellen West; Layard’s Lady of the Hare; Fordham’s Golden Baby; Boss’s Dr Cobling and Regula Zürcher; Laing and Esterson’s eleven families in “Sanity, Madness and the Family”. His research was sponsored by the Philosophy Department, University of Essex, and the Nuffield Foundation. He has lectured on his research at Regent's College and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, London, and in a number of countries. Since 1996 he has convened the Inner Circle Seminars (now more than 300): an ethical, existential, phenomenological search for truth in “psychotherapy”. He is a former Research Fellow of the Freud Museum, London, and an Honorary Visiting Fellow  of Regent’s University, London. He received the Thomas S. Szasz Award for Outstanding Services to the Cause of Civil Liberties.

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Measures for Living. On the Normativity of Things and Works

Ingvild Torsen is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oslo. She works on topics aesthetics in the Post-Kantian tradition and the philosophy of Martin Heidegger especially. She has published on sculpture, painting, modernism and the body in art. She is the author of the Cambridge Element Heidegger on Art (2026).

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