Vanderbilt University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1973
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
  •  41
    Knowledge as Historical
    The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5 123-132. 2000.
    With few exceptions, philosophers typically have contended that knowledge worthy of the name is beyond time and place. This venerable idea was turned on its head in the emergence of a rival view of knowledge as historical in the wake of the French Revolution. A claim that knowledge is not ahistorical but historical resolves some of these difficulties while creating others. This paper will briefly consider several of these difficulties, including how to argue for this position, the differences be…Read more
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    Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschaftslehre) nova methodo (1796/99) (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 47 (1): 145-146. 1993.
    Fichte is one of the small handful of philosophers on the highest level. But he is still relatively unknown, even in Germany, for a variety of reasons. These include the difficulty of his thought and its expression, which impedes even native Germans; the relatively greater attention paid to Kant and Hegel, and perhaps even to Schelling; and the lack of a critical edition of his writings. In English-language philosophical circles, beyond these handicaps, knowledge of Fichte is further impeded by …Read more
  • Terry Pinkard, Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 4 208-209. 1996.
  • Père Marcel Régnier (1900-1998): Hommage au Père Marcel REGNIER (1900-1998)
    with F. Marty, X. Tilliette, H. -G. Gadamer, R. Lauth, W. Klubagk, L. Sichirollo, D. Henrich, P. Fruchon, and O. PÖGGELER
    Archives de Philosophie 62 (3): 429-442. 1999.
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    On Marxian epistemology and phenomenology
    Studies in East European Thought 28 (3): 187-199. 1984.
  •  16
    Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy
    Yale University Press. 2004.
    In this book—the first large-scale survey of the complex relationship between Hegel’s idealism and Anglo-American analytic philosophy—Tom Rockmore argues that analytic philosophy has consistently misread and misappropriated Hegel. According to Rockmore, the first generation of British analytic philosophers to engage Hegel possessed a limited understanding of his philosophy and of idealism. Succeeding generations continued to misinterpret him, and recent analytic thinkers have turned Hegel into a…Read more
  •  22
    Can War Transform Iraq into a Democracy?
    Theoria 51 (103): 15-27. 2004.
  •  4
    Remarks on Epistemological Circularity
    Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 2 943-948. 1988.
  • Irrationalism. Lukács and the Marxist View of Reason
    Science and Society 58 (1): 115-117. 1992.
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    Fichte in the New World
    The Owl of Minerva 23 (1): 126-128. 1991.
    It is a fact that Hegel’s immense presence, and above all his own self-serving reading of the history of philosophy as leading up to his own position, has tended to detract attention from other views. Hegel’s position consciously builds upon its predecessors. If philosophy culminates in Hegel’s thought, then other theories are mainly valuable in that they survive as lower moments of the Hegelian synthesis. Hegel insists that he takes up what is positive in prior views. Hence, the mere fact that …Read more
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    The epistemological promise of pragmatism
    In Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Orbach Bookman & Catherine Kemp (eds.), Habermas and pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 47--64. 2002.
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    New essays on Fichte's later Jena Wissenschaftslehre (edited book)
    Northwestern University Press. 2002.
    The philosophical thought of J. G. Fichte, particularly his later work, is at the very center of the paradigm shift under way in the field of German idealism. Crucial to this reassessment is Fichte's _Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo_ of 1796 to 1799, the manuscript at the heart of this essay colleciton and an articulation of the philosopher's _Wissenschaftslehre,_ or overall system of philosophy, which he discussed in lectures at the University of Jena. Coherent, comprehensive, and edited by two…Read more
  •  23
    On Fichte and Idealism
    Fichte-Studien 31 69-79. 2007.
  •  17
    Hegel et le constructivisme épistémologique
    Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 53 (1): 103-113. 2007.
    Il sera question ici d’examiner le constructivisme hégélien, relativement au problème épistémologique. Le constructivisme, comme concept mathématique, est basé sur la construction de l’objet et remonte à l’antiquité grecque. Le constructivisme philosophique, par contre, est un concept moderne qui applique cette stratégie mathématique au problème de la connaissance. La forme hégélienne, omniprésente dans ses écrits, ne semble jamais avoir reçu l’attention qu’elle mérite. Elle se laisse pourtant e…Read more
  • Book reviews (review)
    with James C. Morrison and Cyril Welch
    Man and World 12 (1): 89-112. 1979.
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    Recent Analytical Philosophy and Idealism
    The 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
  •  18
    Fichte, Ethics, and Transcendental Philosophy
    Philosophy Today 52 (3-4): 252-258. 2008.
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    Tradition(s) (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 36 (1): 347-348. 2004.
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    Reviews (review)
    with Frederick J. Adelmann and Timothy E. O'Connor
    Studies in East European Thought 41 (3): 233-242. 1991.
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    Marx, Marxism, and Philosophical Modernity
    Studies in Soviet Thought 25 (3): 165-184. 1983.
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    Hegel and the hermeneutics of German idealism
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 (1). 1995.
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    On the Structure of Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    Metaphilosophy 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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    A Progress Report on Cognitive Foundationalism and Metaphysical Realism
    Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 39 (1): 53-59. 2014.
    Metaphysical realism, though not under that name, runs throughout the entire Western tradition at least since Parmenides. His basic ontological claim, that is, that what is is and cannot not be, hence cannot change, influentially creates a central philosophical task. Cognitive foundationalism, whose exemplar is Descartes, is a cognitive strategy intended to respond to metaphysical realism. Plato rejects any form of a representational approach to knowledge in rejecting the backward causal inferen…Read more
  • Reviews (review)
    Studies in Soviet Thought 20 (2): 191-197. 1979.
  • Hegel y los límites del hegelianismo analítico
    Contrastes: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 8 123-137. 2003.