Author

Lee Braver

Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida and author
of A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism, Heidegger:
Thinking of Being, and Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and
Heidegger.

Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida and author
of A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism, Heidegger:
Thinking of Being, and Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and
Heidegger.

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