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63. Hegel, Idealism, and KnowledgeIn Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy, Yale University Press. pp. 165-228. 2004.
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41. Idealism, British Idealism, and Analytic PhilosophyIn Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy, Yale University Press. pp. 11-63. 2004.
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142. Pragmatism, Analytic Neopragmatism, and HegelIn Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy, Yale University Press. pp. 64-164. 2004.
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52On the So‐Called War on TerrorismMetaphilosophy 35 (3): 386-401. 2004.Since the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001, the country has embarked on a so‐called war on terrorism. This essay argues that so‐called war on terrorism has used the pretext of responding to terrorist attacks in the U.S. in September 2001 to wage wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that have objectives other than stamping out terrorism. It further argues that war requires a moral justification that cannot be provided for either the war in Afghanistan or the war in Iraq.
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39Imagination and Reflection - Intersubjectivity (review)The Owl of Minerva 15 (2): 219-222. 1984.The importance of the positions of Fichte and Hegel for the correct interpretation of each other’s respective views is perhaps more frequently recognized than acknowledged. At a time when Hegel’s influence on the interpretation, or perhaps one ought to say misinterpretation, of his predecessor’s thought is being more widely recognized, particularly among Fichte scholars, Fichte’s contribution to the constitution of the Hegelian philosophy has still not been widely appreciated. In part, this is n…Read more
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38Marx’s Social Critique of Culture (review)International Studies in Philosophy 20 (1): 73-74. 1988.
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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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16Cognition: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of SpiritUniv of California Press. 1997.Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, the philosopher's first and perhaps greatest work, is the most important philosophical treatise of the nineteenth century. In this companion volume to his general introduction to Hegel, Tom Rockmore offers a passage-by-passage guide to the Phenomenology for first-time readers of the book and others who are not Hegel specialists. Rockmore demonstrates that Hegel's concepts of spirit, consciousness, and reason can be treated as elements of a single, coherent theory…Read more
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78On reading HegelPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (1): 55-66. 2007.New readings have recently been offered by Frederick Beiser and Robert Brandom of Hegel, a notoriously difficult writer. I believe that both Beiser and Brandom go astray in reading Hegel otherwise than how he reads others, that is, in terms of the internal development of their theories in response to philosophical problems with which they were concerned as opposed to other, external concerns. Beiser reads Hegels position in the context of German idealism in order to refute it and Brandom reads …Read more
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115Kolakawski and Markovic on stalinism, Marxism, and MarxPhilosophy and Social Criticism 6 (3): 308-324. 1979.
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47Heidegger and French Philosophy: Humanism, Antihumanism and BeingRoutledge. 1994.Martin Heidegger's impact on contemporary thought is important and controversial. However in France, the influence of this German philosopher is such that contemporary French thought cannot be properly understood without reference to Heidegger and his extraordinary influence. Tom Rockmore examines the reception of Heidegger's thought in France. He argues that in the period after the Second World War, due to the peculiar nature of the humanist French Philosophical tradition, Heidegger became the …Read more
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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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35A New Look at Croce’s HistoricismIdealistic Studies 35 (1): 49-60. 2005.The aim of this informal paper is to direct (or redirect) attention to the importance of Croce’s historicism. Though he is sometimes described as the best known Italian intellectual since Galileo, and though his influence remains strong in Italy, his impact outside Italy is not as important as it should be. Other than through Collingwood, his only well known English-language disciple, Croce has had very little influence on those writing in English. His theories, including his historicism, on whi…Read more
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3On Heidegger and National Socialism: A Triple Turn?Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 14 (2-1): 423-439. 1991.
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61Foundationalism and Hegelian LogicThe Owl of Minerva 21 (1): 41-50. 1989.It has sometimes erroneously been thought that theory of knowledge worthy of the name, or even epistemology as such comes to an end with Kant. This view is an error, since there are profound views of knowledge in the post-Kantian philosophical tradition, including that in Hegel’s thought. Now epistemology is a wide topic that includes a variety of themes. One of the main themes in the theory of knowledge in modern philosophy, especially in recent years, has been the issue of foundationalism. The…Read more
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5Reinhard Lauth, "Die tranzendentale Naturlehre Fichtes nach den Prinzipien der Wissenschaftslehre" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 25 (3): 455. 1987.
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