Vanderbilt University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1973
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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    Dilthey and historical reason
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 4 477-494. 2003.
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    Knowledge, hermeneutics, and history
    Man and World 25 (1): 79-101. 1992.
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    Reviews (review)
    with Friedrich Rapp
    Studies in Soviet Thought 25 (4): 323-329. 1983.
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    Fichte, éthique et philosophie transcendantale
    Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 71 (3): 343-353. 2011.
    Fichte, qui s’est lui-même présenté comme kantien orthodoxe, et a même prétendu être le seul qui ait compris correctement la philosophie critique, nous a entraînés en fait dans une interprétation qui pourrait être fourvoyante. Bien qu’évidemment clairement inspiré par Kant, bien qu’il parvienne à la vie philosophique dans un climat entièrement dominé par le débat autour du criticisme, ses solutions sont entièrement différentes de celles de Kant. L’Auteur s’attache à montrer ces différences et à …Read more
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    The Philosophy of Interpretation (edited book)
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2000.
    This is a lively, freshly invited collection of papers by a number of well-known philosophers and other specialists who have focused very pointedly on certain central conceptual puzzles posed by the general practice of interpretation in the arts, literature, history, and the natural and human sciences. The collection gives very nearly the impression of a sustained debate.
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    Heidegger'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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    On Constructivist Epistemology
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.
    In this new volume, On Constructivist Epistemology, Rockmore traces the idea of constructivism and then proposes the outlines of an original constructivist approach to knowledge, building on the work of such thinkers as Hobbes, Vico, and Kant
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    Book review (review)
    Man and World 13 (2): 251-260. 1980.
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    On classical and neo-analytic forms of pragmatism
    Metaphilosophy 36 (3): 259-271. 2005.
    Pragmatism as it originally arose in America has always been pluralist, always willing to find space for those who understood it in other ways. But in the emergence of neo-analytic pragmatism it is possible that the term has been stretched beyond its limits in a way that does more harm than good in veiling if not actually obscuring central tenets that are well worth preserving. The aim of this article is to describe some aspects of this phenomenon and to draw some tentative conclusions.
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    Is Marx a Pragmatist?
    Pragmatism Today 7 (2): 24-32. 2016.
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    Reviews (review)
    Studies in East European Thought 20 (2): 275-277. 1979.
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    Merleau-Ponty, Marx, and Marxism: The problem of history
    Studies in East European Thought 48 (1): 63-81. 1996.
    At the present time, Europe, particularly eastern Europe, is still immersed in a major political transformation, the most significant such change since the Second World War, arising out of the rejection of official Marxism. This unforeseen rejection requires meditation by all those concerned with the relation of philosophy to the historical context. Marxism, that follows Marx’s insistence on the link between a theory and the context in which it arises, cannot be indifferent to the rejection of M…Read more
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    Vico y el constructivismo
    Cuadernos Sobre Vico 11 (12): 193-199. 1999.
    Este trabajo recorre el constructivismo epistemológico de Vico. Por "constructivismo" se entiende la visión de que el objeto cognitivo no es algo simplemente dado sino en cierto modo "construido" por el sujeto como una condición de conocimiento. Se piensa que en este camino Vico figura como uno de los más importantes innovadores epistemológicos de los tiempos modernos. Vico entendió que, no pudiendo nosotros conocer independientemente la realidad, las condiciones de conocimiento son entonces, de…Read more
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    Interpretation as Historical, Constructivism, and History
    Metaphilosophy 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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    Reviews (review)
    with Heinrich Bortis, J. M. Bocheński, Thomas J. Blakeley, Michael M. Boll, John D. Windhausen, Charles E. Ziegler, and John W. Murphy
    Studies in Soviet Thought 28 (1): 39-76. 1984.
  • Response To Errol Harris's Review Of "Hegel's Circular Epistemology"
    Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 15 55-56. 1987.
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    Marx between Feuerbach and Hegel
    Idealistic Studies 42 (2-3): 109-118. 2012.
    This paper is about the uses made of Feuerbach’s position in Marxist hagiography as part of the process of the conceptual and politi­cal canonization of Marx
  • My topic concerns the interrelation between religion, politics and ethics in a time of terror, or at least a historical moment when the general problem of terrorism has come to occupy center stage. The frequent view that 9/11 represents a wholly new situation, a break with the past makes it difficult, perhaps impossible to understand it. I believe that it is because 9/11 does not break with but continues tendencies already underway that it occurred and we can understand it. My paper, which insis…Read more