Vanderbilt University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1973
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
  • Review of Mary Tiles: Bachelard: Science and Objectivity (review)
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (4): 529-531. 1986.
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    Aspects of Heidegger in France
    Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 4 (1): 21-30. 1992.
  •  3
    On Heidegger and National Socialism: A Triple Turn?
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 14 (2-1): 423-439. 1991.
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    Hermeneutische Wahrheit? (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 24 (3): 335-337. 1984.
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    Epistemology As Hermeneutics
    The 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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    Reviews (review)
    with John D. Windhausen, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, Irving H. Anellis, and Heinrich Bortis
    Studies in East European Thought 33 (4): 265-267. 1987.
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    Hegel and Epistemological Constructivism
    Idealistic 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
  • Terrell Carver, Engels (review)
    Philosophy in Review 3 53-55. 1983.
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    Art and Truth After Plato
    University 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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    New perspectives on Fichte (edited book)
    Humanities Press. 1996.
    These original essays, never published before, suggest the breadth and richness of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's philosophy and are signs of the contemporary effort to explore the relationship between his system of thought and current philosophical debates. Some of the issues discussed included the relationship between "theoretical" and "practical" reason; the philosophy of language; antifoundationalism; the juridical status of women; duties toward natural beings; and the political implications of th…Read more
  • Heidegger's Politics And French Philosophy
    Existentia 2 (1-4): 233-253. 1992.
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    Kant and phenomenology
    University of Chicago Press. 2011.
    From Platonism to phenomenology -- Kant's epistemological shift to phenomenology -- Hegel's phenomenology as epistemology -- Husserl's phenomenological epistemology -- Heidegger's phenomenological ontology -- Kant, Merleau-Ponty's descriptive phenomenology, and the primacy of perception -- On overcoming the epistemological problem through phenomenology.
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    Reviews (review)
    with Kurt Marko, K. M. Jensen, and William Gavin
    Studies in Soviet Thought 23 (4): 333-352. 1982.
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    Marxian Man
    The Monist 61 (1): 56-71. 1978.
    A great deal of attention has been devoted to Marxian man in recent years as a result of the increased interest in the early Marx. A complete list of all those who have considered this problem cannot be given here, but Lukács, Fromm, Popitz, Petrovic, and Schaff, and among more recent contributors Avineri, Mészáros, Sève and Hartmann should be mentioned. The result of all this attention has been, as could be expected, somewhat ambiguous. On the one hand, progress has been made in several areas. …Read more
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    Can Philosophy be International?
    Metaphilosophy 28 (4): 302-313. 1997.
    There is a difference between internationalism in politics and philosophy. This paper takes the position that internationalism is possible in politics but not in philosophy, although it is an objective worth pursuing in both domains.
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    Is Marx a Fichtean?
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 36 (1): 93-104. 2010.
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    Fichte, lask, and lukács's Hegelian marxism
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (4): 557-577. 1992.
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    Remarques sur Fichte and Sartre
    Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 7 (3): 208-223. 1995.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Robert D. Cumming and David B. Ingram
    Man and World 16 (1): 67-84. 1983.
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    Metaphysics at the End of the Century
    Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 3 (2 & 3): 111-122. 1999.
  • Hegel et la tradition philosophique allemande
    Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 101 (4): 563-563. 1996.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with David Karnos
    Man and World 11 (3-4): 429-451. 1978.
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    Put’ Gegelja k “Nauke logiki” (review)
    The Owl of Minerva 21 (1): 99-102. 1989.
    What is the “correct” way to review a Russian language Hegel study? From the philosophical perspective, it is certainly insufficient to leave this task to the practicing sovietologist, whose concern in not intrinsic philosophical merit. In the present review, I shall bracket all other questions in order to focus on the philosophical contribution of the work under discussion.