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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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28On Foundationalism: A Strategy for Metaphysical RealismRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.In ancient times, the main approaches to metaphysical realism were intuitive. In modern times, foundationalism has replaced intuition as the main strategy to make out metaphysical realist claims to know. In On Foundationalism, Rockmore argues that foundationalism fails in all its known variants
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27Marx the FichteanEthics in Progress 12 (2). 2021.We ignore the history of philosophy at our peril. Engels, who typically conflates Marx and Marxism, points to the relation of Marxism to the tradition while also denying it. In his little book on Feuerbach, Engels depicts Feuerbach as leading Marx away from Hegel, away from classical German philosophy, away from philosophy and towards materialism and science. This view suggests that Marx is at best negatively related to Classical German philosophy, including Hegel. Yet Engels elsewhere suggests …Read more
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27Art and Truth After PlatoUniversity of Chicago Press. 2013.In Art and Truth after Plato, Tom Rockmore argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered—and to demonstrate that, he offers a comprehensive account of Plato’s influence through nearly the whole history of Western ...
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27Husserlian phenomenology, soviet marxism, and philosophic dialogueStudies in East European Thought 24 (4): 249-276. 1982.
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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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26Interprétations Hégéliennes de MarxSymposium 19 (2): 212-232. 2015.Marx est un grand penseur et, selon divers critères, un des plus importants des temps modernes. L’enjeu ici est de cerner ce que Marx peut nous apporter aujourd’hui sur le plan philosophique. Le déclin soudain du marxisme officiel présente une occasion de faire ressortir le côté philosophique de Marx. Or voici quatre conditions afin de cerner la philosophie marxienne. Ces conditions relèvent du marxisme, de Hegel, de l’économie politique, et du modèle marxien de la société industrialisée moderne
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26Luc Ferry & Alain Renaut, Pourquoi nous ne sommes pas nietzscheensBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 5 (1): 120-123. 1993.none
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26Analytic Philosophy and the Hegelian TurnReview of Metaphysics 55 (2). 2001.THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW CENTURY provides a good time to reflect on the most influential philosophers of this period, or those most likely to survive, or again whom we should be reading in a hundred years. The answer one gives to this type of question obviously depends on what one thinks philosophy is about. I would like to suggest that at the beginning of the new century, at the start of the new millennium, the philosopher we will and should still be reading at the end of the new century is not…Read more
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25Is Marx a Materialist?Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 55 (3): 62-75. 2018.This paper examines the distinction between materialism (or realism) and idealism, which to the best of my knowledge all forms of Marxism regard as central to Marx as well as to Marxism. Materialism comes into ancient philosophy as a philosophical approach to philosophy of nature, which later becomes a philosophical alternative to idealism, and still later becomes a Marxist view of an extra-philosophical, scientific approach supposedly illustrated by Marx. The paper will review Marxist approache…Read more
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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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25Interpretation as Historical, Constructivism, and HistoryMetaphilosophy 31 (1-2): 184-199. 2000.Interpretation is construed, here, as synonymous with hermeneutics: understood as a source of knowledge – perhaps, after the apparently irremediable decline of epistemological foundationalism, the main modern epistemological strategy. In this sense, there is no difference in principle between epistemology and interpretation; the first is a form of the second.
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23Epistemic Constructivism, Metaphysical Realism and Parmenidean IdentityEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 48 (2): 59-74. 2016.The cognitive problem, which is a main modern theme, arises early in the Greektra- dition. Parmenides, who formulates one ofthe first identifiably "modern" approaches to epistemology, points toward identity as the only acceptable cognitive standard. The paper, which leaves epistemic skepticism for another occasion, reviews versions of metaphysicalrealism identified with Plato in ancient philosophy and Descartes in the modern tradition in suggesting that for different reasons both fail. The paper…Read more
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23On Marxian epistemology and phenomenologyStudies in East European Thought 28 (3): 187-199. 1984.
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23Recent Discussion of Heidegger and PoliticsGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 21 (2): 47-67. 1999.There is an obvious distinction between the philosophical meditation on politics and relevance to politics, on the one hand, and the political engagement of philosophers and even philosophy, on the other. At this late date, there can be few people interested in philosophy, and even many uninterested in this ancient discipline, unaware that Martin Heidegger turned to Nazism in the 1930s. Heidegger, who all his life subscribed to the Platonic view of the priority of philosophy over politics, later…Read more
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22Lukács on Classical German Philosophy and MarxIdealistic Studies 10 (3): 209-231. 1980.The importance of Lukács’ interpretation of classical German philosophy and Marx is almost self-evident. Although Marxists are frequently content to dismiss with contempt a philosophical tradition with which they display scant acquaintance, Lukács’ knowledge of philosophy is obviously extensive. His writings contain what is perhaps the most detailed discussion of the history of philosophy from a Marxist perspective. Further, his influence on the interpretation of Marx has been unequaled over the…Read more
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22Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (review)Review of Metaphysics 60 (1): 180-181. 2006.
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22Report on the Third International Philosophical‐Cultural Symposium on MetaphilosophyMetaphilosophy 29 (1&2): 3-5. 1998.
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22Marxian epistemology and two kinds of pragmatismStudies in Soviet Thought 28 (2): 117-125. 1984.
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21Hegel and the hermeneutics of German idealismInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 (1). 1995.
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20Johann Gottlieb Fichte, "Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy " (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 33 (1): 178. 1995.
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20John Dewey and Continental Philosophy (edited book)Southern Illinois University Press. 2010._John Dewey and Continental Philosophy_ provides a rich sampling of exchanges that could have taken place long ago between the traditions of American pragmatism and continental philosophy had the lines of communication been more open between Dewey and his European contemporaries. Since they were not, Paul Fairfield and thirteen of his colleagues seek to remedy the situation by bringing the philosophy of Dewey into conversation with several currents in continental philosophical thought, from post…Read more
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