ABSTRACT
This chapter refers to Heidegger's pragmatic readers, using that term to refer primarily to Dreyfus and his students and scholarly conversation partners. It concentrates on three issues they raise, asking not just whether they are accurate as readings of Heidegger but more importantly whether and to what extent they accurately capture the phenomena they take Heidegger to be describing. Refreshing on the part of all of these readers is their orientation on what they take to be important systematic insights guiding Heidegger. The chapter illustrates these insights using a variety of everyday examples that point to new directions for a philosophical approach that avoids many of the pitfalls resulting from some understandable but ultimately wrong-headed basic assumptions of modern philosophy and indeed of some key aspects of the traditional project of philosophy as conceived since its outset, in particular its emphasis on reflection and theoretical reasoning over practice.
