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7Introduction to the Lectures on the History of PhilosophyPhilosophical Books 27 (3): 146-148. 1986.
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17Once More on Relative Truth - a Reply to SkillenRadical Philosophy 64 35-38. 1993.In the articles that Skillen criticizes, I am concerned with the problems posed by the 1 social character of knowledge. To defend realism, I argue, it is necessary to develop a historical account of knowledge, involving relative concepts of truth and falsehood. Although Skillen shares the desire to defend realism, he can see no value in this approach, which he variously describes as `obfuscating', `obscuring', and lacking `rigour' and `consistency'. Indeed, he cannot even see the problems I am d…Read more
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38Marxist Philosophy in Britain: An OverviewModern Philosophy 2008 (2): 52-57. 2008.Scholarly interest in Marxist philosophy has fluctuated dramatically in the past fifty years. Before that, there was little scholarly work in Britain on Marxist philosophy or on Marxism more generally. In the nineteen fifties there were important contributions by economic theorists1 and social historians2 but academic discussion of Marx's philosophy or even of his political theory was minimal and mainly by critics.3 There were only a few philosophers who adhered to Marxism and these were mostly …Read more
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38F.H. Bradley and the Concept of Relative TruthRadical Philosophy 59 (59): 15-20. 1991.Few people now read F.H. Bradley and the British Idealists. This is not because they are not important philosophers. On the contrary. It is generally agreed that Bradley, in particular, 2 is a major philosopher, as well as a great, if demanding, writer. It is rather because Bradley and the other Idealists are thought to inhabit a philosophical world quite different from that of the mainstream of contemporary philosophy. They seem to be concerned with issues and problems which have little or noth…Read more
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40MacIntyre and modernityIn Paul Blackledge & Kelvin Knight (eds.), Virtue and Politics: Alasdair Macintyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism, University of Notre Dame Press. 2011.At a time when many professional philosophers in the English speaking world have all but given up the attempt to think critically and in large scale terms about the modern world, MacIntyre's work is defiantly untimely, and greatly welcome for that. It is remarkably wide ranging, comprehensive and thought provoking. He has been described as a `revolutionary Aristotelian', but this indicates only part of the picture. His work draws on ideas not only from Marx and Aristotle, but also from analytica…Read more
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Review of Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy - from the Bolsheviks to Ilenkov,Evald - Bakhurst,D (review)Canadian Slavonic Papers-Revue Canadienne des Slavistes 34 (1-2): 176-177. 1992.
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K Anderson's Lenin, Hegel And Western Marxism (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 34 72-76. 1996.
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The Tasks of Philosophy, Selected Essays Volume 1; Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays Volume 2 (review)Radical Philosophy 143. 2007.
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71Philosophy and the Information SuperhighwayRadical Philosophy 67 (67): 63-63. 1994.The extraordinary capacity of computers to hold text is familiar to anyone who uses a word processor: an average book will fit comfortably onto a 3.5" floppy disc. With the growth of easy means of communication between computers an immense quantity of information has become available on a world-wide basis. The links may not yet amount to a "superhighway", but they are fast, efficient and increasingly user-friendly. Moreover, like the roads, the system is free to users (though the Clinton adminis…Read more
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Review of James D. White, Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism (review)Historical Materialism (5): 359-366. 1999.
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I Hunt's Analytical And Dialectical Marxism (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 39 133-138. 1999.
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26Analytical Marxism and MoralityThe Bulletin of Nihon Fukushi University 19 (81-2): 127-157. 1990.