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4Remarks on Epistemological CircularityPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 2 943-948. 1988.
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31Hegel's Circular Epistemology as AntifoundationalismHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 6 (1). 1989.
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Terry Pinkard, Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of ReasonInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 4 208-209. 1996.
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Before and After 9/11: Religion, Politics, and EthicsArs Disputandi 7. 2007.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
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24On Marxian epistemology and phenomenologyStudies in East European Thought 28 (3): 187-199. 1984.
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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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13Fichte and Sartre on Cartesian Freedom and Rousseau’s ProblemIn Violetta L. Waibel (ed.), Fichte Und Sartre Über Freiheit: Das Ich Und der Andere, De Gruyter. pp. 93-108. 2015.
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48Recent Analytical Philosophy and IdealismThe 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
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12Kantian Ethics in Being and TimeJournal of Philosophical Research 31 309-334. 2006.Heidegger’s Being and Time has been accused of espousing empty decisionism and relativism. I argue, first, that in fact Being and Time’s stress on the situated character of human judgment is supplemented by a very Kantian account of being human that defi nes appropriate behavior towards all entities possessing a certain character. Its analysis of conscience and guilt attempts to uncover the existential basis for the distinction Kant draws between the phenomenal and the noumenal aspects of the se…Read more
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1The epistemological promise of pragmatismIn Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Orbach Bookman & Cathy Kemp (eds.), Habermas and Pragmatism, Routledge. pp. 47--64. 2002.
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35Antifoundationalism old and new (edited book)Temple University Press. 1992.The debate over foundationalism, the viewpoint that there exists some secure foundation upon which to build a system of knowledge, appears to have been resolved and the antifoundationalists have at least temporarily prevailed. From a firmly historical approach, the book traces the foundationalism/antifoundationalism controversy in the work of many important figures Animaxander, Aristotle and Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Hegel and Nietzsche, Habermas and Chisholm, and others throughout the histor…Read more
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Hegel, the concept of man as actor, and modern German philosophyArchives de Philosophie 44 (1): 3-18. 1981.
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28Ambiguity and orthodoxy: Bertram Wolfe's view of Marx and MarxismStudies in East European Thought 20 (4): 349-360. 1979.The purpose of this paper is to study bertram wolfe's views of marx and marxism, and in particular to call attention to his insistence on the basic ambiguity of the classical doctrines and the exploitation of that ambiguity within differing concepts of marxist orthodoxy. i suggest that the importance of wolfe's views of marx and marxism lies less in the specific theses he advances or in the details of his discussion. in opposition to the more usual approach to marxism as a unified phenomenon, wo…Read more
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20Hegel on Epistemological Circularity and CertaintyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 21 (3): 235-248. 1981.
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44On the Structure of Twentieth-Century PhilosophyMetaphilosophy 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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20Die transzendentale naturlehre fichtes nach den prinzipien der wissenschaftslehreJournal of the History of Philosophy 25 (3): 455-456. 1987.
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1Fichte on knowledge, practice, and historyIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), After Jena: New Essays on Fichte's Later Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2008.
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