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Tarek R. Dika is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, St. George. He is the author of Descartes’ Method: The Formation of the Subject of Science (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Heidegger and the Temporal Interpretation of Being (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He is currently writing a popular introduction to philosophy.

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Tarek R. Dika is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, St. George. He is the author of Descartes’ Method: The Formation of the Subject of Science (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Heidegger and the Temporal Interpretation of Being (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He is currently writing a popular introduction to philosophy.

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