I had already read the Dreyfus paper awhile back when I was first looking into this issue of realism but thanks for reminding me about it; it’s a great paper although I think Carman does a better job of arguing for ontic realism through his intelligibility thesis. Regardless, Dreyfus is nice to have in your back pocket when discussing these issues and he is great for finding good quotes from Heidegger.

nice post. As far as my knowledge of Heidegger goes, I tend to agree with you. You might know this already, but if you don’t you could find it interesting: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/rtf/Heidegger-Realism_5_95.rtf