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24On Marxian epistemology and phenomenologyStudies in East European Thought 28 (3): 187-199. 1984.
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15Hegel, Freedom, and Modernity (review)Review of Metaphysics 46 (4): 881-882. 1993.Westphal's new book is marked by clarity and simplicity of style, a rare quality in the often turgid Hegel discussion, whose obscurity often approaches that of the master's own writing. The result is a refreshing, interesting, informed, intelligent, often critical examination of a variety of themes in Hegel's theory by one of our best Hegel scholars.
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15Bemerkungen zum Neo-Marxismus: Sartre und HabermasZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 36 (2). 1982.
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4Remarks on Epistemological CircularityPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 2 943-948. 1988.
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53Fichte, German idealism, and early romanticism (edited book)Rodopi. 2010.This volume of 23 previously unpublished essays explores the relationship between the philosophy of J.G. Fichte and that of other leading thinkers associated ...
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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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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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49Idealist Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutics of IdealismIdealistic Studies 12 (2): 91-102. 1982.The recent concern with hermeneutics, which stems above all from Truth and Method, should not be allowed to obscure the fact, to which Gadamer certainly is sensitive, that this topic has a long philosophical lineage, extending back into the tradition at least to Aristotle. In particular, it seems rarely to have been noticed that although their thought is notoriously difficult, the major members of the German idealist tradition provided not only the positions themselves, but a theory of their int…Read more
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27Fried, Gregory. Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (2): 419-421. 2002.
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86Aspects of French HegelianismThe Owl of Minerva 24 (2): 191-206. 1993.It is hardly surprising, since for Hegel philosophers are children of their times, that French Hegelianism differs from Hegelianism in other languages and literatures. At least the following aspects typify the French approach to Hegel's theory. To begin with, Hegel, like a few others, is a master thinker in the French discussion, one of the few intellectual figures around whom the discussion tends to take shape. Second, in the wake of the major impetus provided to French Hegel studies by Kojève'…Read more
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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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29Heidegger's uses of Plato and the history of philosophyIn Catalin Partenie & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Heidegger and Plato: Toward Dialogue, Northwestern University Press. pp. 192--212. 2005.
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67Fichtean Circularity, Antifoundationalism, and Groundless SystemIdealistic Studies 25 (1): 107-124. 1995.For some time now I have been arguing that Fichte's theory can be read as circular, antifoundationalist, and systematic, and further arguing that it is the source of an epistemological revolution in philosophy. Fichte and most of his interpreters mainly see him as carrying forward the critical philosophy. But I see him as breaking with it in crucial ways in a profoundly innovative theory. The aim of this paper is to pull together aspects of this argument in a single place in order to describe Fi…Read more
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Leszek Kolakowski, "Die Hauptsstromungen des Marxismus: Entstehung, Entwicklung, Zerfall" (review)Man and World 12 (1): 89. 1979.
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40Marxian epistemology and two kinds of pragmatismStudies in East European Thought 28 (2): 117-125. 1984.
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20Gadamer, Rorty and Epistemology as HermeneuticsLaval Théologique et Philosophique 53 (1): 119-130. 1997.
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8Ambiguity and orthodoxy: Bertram Wolfe's view of Marx and MarxismStudies in Soviet Thought 20 (4): 349-360. 1979.
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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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62Epistemology As HermeneuticsThe Monist 73 (2): 115-133. 1990.Recent discussion has seen an increase in the interest in hermeneutics. The increased interest in hermeneutics goes back at least until the appearance of Being and Time in 1927, more than sixty years ago. Thisbookis characterized by the unresolved tension between two clearly incompatible theses: the Husserlian form of absolute truth, and a post-Husserlian view of truth arising from the hermeneutical circle. More recently, the interest in hermeneutics has been strengthened by the appearance of Tr…Read more
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