ABSTRACT
Refl ecting on how Heidegger would view ‘the hard problem’ of consciousness is di cult because he insistently rejects as confused so many of the broader commitments against the background of which that problem and much of the rest of contemporary philosophy of mind are framed. Consequently, he does not articulate or defend his own way of thinking in terms that those who share those commitments would recognize. But he clearly sees himself as challenging such commitments and the philosophical inheritance that burdens us with them.
