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25In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth CenturyWiley-Blackwell. 2006.In Kant’s Wake evaluates the four main trends in philosophy in the twentieth century — Marxism, Anglo-American analytic, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy — and argues that all four evolved in reaction to Kant’s fascinating and demanding philosophy. Gives a sense of the main thinkers and problems, and the nature of their debates; Provides an intriguing assessment of the accomplishments of twentieth-century philosophy
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16Fichte, Husserl, and Philosophical ScienceInternational Philosophical Quarterly 19 (1): 15-27. 1979.
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48Recent Analytical Philosophy and IdealismThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 8 173-181. 2000.The link between empiricism and realism is crucially important in analytic philosophy. Empiricism is roughly the claim that knowledge must arise out of experience; it cannot, as Descartes thought, be innate. Realism is roughly the associated claim that whatever thought refers to is real, in a word, exists, independently of the mind. However, idealism (or idealism as understood by analytic philosophers) not only violates the rigorous philosophical standards that analytical philosophy has always c…Read more
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9Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2013._New perspectives on Fichte’s best known and most popular work._
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1The epistemological promise of pragmatismIn Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Orbach Bookman & Cathy Kemp (eds.), Habermas and Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 47--64. 2002.
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19Após o marxismo:Liberalismo democrático e reconhecimento hegelianoPhilósophos - Revista de Filosofia 4 (1): 125-139. 1999.Este artigo trata da oposição entre liberalismo e marxismo e mostra que o problema político moderno deve ser pensado a partir de uma forma atualizada da teoria hegeliana do reconhecimento
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44On the Structure of Twentieth-Century PhilosophyMetaphilosophy 35 (4): 466-478. 2004.It makes sense to ask from time to time where we are in the philosophical discussion. This article reviews the debate in the twentieth century. Michael Friedman has recently argued that the split between Continental and analytic philosophy is due to the inability, because of war, to carry forward a genuine debate begun by Heidegger and Carnap around the time of Heidegger's public controversy with Cassirer at Davos in 1929. I, however, argue that there was not even the beginning of a genuine deba…Read more
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27Husserlian phenomenology, soviet marxism, and philosophic dialogueStudies in East European Thought 24 (4): 249-276. 1982.
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Whitehead et Hegel. Réalisme, idéalisme et philosophie spéculativeArchives de Philosophie 53 (2): 261. 1990.
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28Piketty, Marxian Political Economy, and the Law of the Falling Rate of ProfitMetaphilosophy 48 (1-2): 146-152. 2017.This article examines two views about the capitalism that lies at the heart of modern industrial society. We owe to Marx and Piketty two large-scale, hugely important, but very different studies of the nature of modern industrial capitalism. In Capital, Marx provides a complex analysis of the anatomy of modern industrial capitalism, which he regards not as stable but rather as over time unstable and tending toward internal collapse on several grounds, of which the most important is apparently th…Read more
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18Hegel and Epistemological ConstructivismIdealistic Studies 36 (3): 183-190. 2006.This is a paper about Hegelian constructivism in relation to theory of knowledge. Constructivism, which is known at least since Greek antiquity, is understood in different ways. In philosophy, epistemological constructivism is often rejected, and only occasionally studied. Kantian constructivism is examined from time to time under the heading of the Copernican revolution. Hegelian constructivism, which is best understood as a reaction to and revision of Kantian epistemology, seems never to have …Read more
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Antifoundationalism, Circularity and the Spirit of FichteIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte: historical contexts/contemporary controversies, Humanities Press. 1994.
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40Marxian epistemology and two kinds of pragmatismStudies in East European Thought 28 (2): 117-125. 1984.
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31Heidegger's Language, Truth and Poetry. Estrangements in the Later Writings (review)Review of Metaphysics 44 (1): 132-134. 1990.Gerald Bruns has written a fine study of the relation of language and poetry in the later Heidegger, whose final phase lies beyond the reach of philosophical comprehension, according to Bruns. Bruns offers a clear, comprehensive, sensitive account of a number of main themes in Heidegger's final view in a discussion patient to a fault and always attentive to the nuances of expression, an application if one will of Heidegger's idea of Gelassenheit to Heidegger's own texts. As Bruns sees it, it is …Read more
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13The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (1): 155-156. 1993.In this book Kovacs interrogates Heidegger's thought in order to cast light on what the author calls the problem of God. The author, who simply assumes that Heidegger's theory can be described as phenomenology, provides a careful, informed study of this.
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32On war, politics and capitalism after 9/11Theoria 53 (110): 74-96. 2006.9/11 represents less a tear in the fabric of history, or a break with the past, than an inflection in ongoing historical processes, such as the continued expansion of capitalism that at some recent time has supposedly attained a level of globalization. This paper considers the relation of war and politics with respect to three instances arising in the wake of 9/11, including the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and finally the global war on terror (GWT). I argue that these wars are superfici…Read more
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