Philosophy and Place

Bruce B. Janz (email)
Humanities, Department of Philosophy
March 16, 2004

Finding Your Place

• Where Are You?
• Implications of the Answers to "Where Are You?"

Place as a Philosophical Question

• What Does It Mean To "Dwell"?
  • The word "Dwell"
  • The word "Home"
• Heidegger and Dwelling
  • Not all buildings are dwelling
  • Building is already dwelling
  • Building: The Dam and the Bridge
  • Thinking
  • Problems with Heidegger

Dwelling Here

• The Good Place
• Where's Home?
• Being Between
• Dwelling in Orlando

For more on the concept of place, see the Research on Place and Space Website

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/life@ucf/