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Fichte's Antifoundationalism, Intellectual Intuition, and Who One IsIn Tom Rockmore & Daniel Breazeale (eds.), New Perspectives on Fichte, Humanities Press. pp. 79--94. 1996.
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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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13Heidegger, National Socialism and “Imperialism” (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 13 (2): 128-145. 2009.
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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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26Luc Ferry & Alain Renaut, Pourquoi nous ne sommes pas nietzscheensBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 5 (1): 120-123. 1993.none
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59From Marx to Kant (review)The Owl of Minerva 20 (2): 216-222. 1989.In the Communist Manifesto, in a famous boutade, Marx and Engels claimed that capitalism was in the process of bringing forth its own gravediggers. This assertion may once have been true. But lately it has seemed less likely as a description of contemporary society which, for all its problems, appears surprisingly robust. Although capitalism has its problems, and perhaps cannot be said to exist now in the sense that it was described by Marx and Engels, as a social system it has always exhibited …Read more
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28Social Epistemology, Interdisciplinarity and ContextEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 37 (3): 57-75. 2013.The discussion is devoted to the notion of context and its use in connection to the notion of interdisciplinarity. These two notions are claimed to be crucial for understanding how “naturalization of social epistemology” can be possible and whether it can be exhausted by an interpretation of knowledge in social context and whether it has its own philosophical importance. These questions were initially raised in the works of I.Kasavin.
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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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Hegel, German Idealism, and Anti-FoundationalismIn Tom Rockmore & Beth J. Singer (eds.), Antifoundationalism Old and New, Temple University Press. pp. 105--25. 1992.
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19Connaissance et moment historiqueRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 4 (4): 495-508. 2001.L’article esquisse des aspects du problème de la connaissance tel qu’on le conçoit au début du siècle, à un moment où le fondationnisme (fondamentalisme), cette stratégie épistémologique qui domine les Temps modernes depuis Descartes, ne paraît plus viable. On en tire les conclusions inévitables.
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9Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2013._New perspectives on Fichte’s best known and most popular work._
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Whitehead et Hegel. Réalisme, idéalisme et philosophie spéculativeArchives de Philosophie 53 (2): 261. 1990.
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28Piketty, Marxian Political Economy, and the Law of the Falling Rate of ProfitMetaphilosophy 48 (1-2): 146-152. 2017.This article examines two views about the capitalism that lies at the heart of modern industrial society. We owe to Marx and Piketty two large-scale, hugely important, but very different studies of the nature of modern industrial capitalism. In Capital, Marx provides a complex analysis of the anatomy of modern industrial capitalism, which he regards not as stable but rather as over time unstable and tending toward internal collapse on several grounds, of which the most important is apparently th…Read more
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25In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth CenturyWiley-Blackwell. 2006.In Kant’s Wake evaluates the four main trends in philosophy in the twentieth century — Marxism, Anglo-American analytic, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy — and argues that all four evolved in reaction to Kant’s fascinating and demanding philosophy. Gives a sense of the main thinkers and problems, and the nature of their debates; Provides an intriguing assessment of the accomplishments of twentieth-century philosophy
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40Marxian epistemology and two kinds of pragmatismStudies in East European Thought 28 (2): 117-125. 1984.
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16Fichte, Husserl, and Philosophical ScienceInternational Philosophical Quarterly 19 (1): 15-27. 1979.
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13The Question of God in Heidegger's Phenomenology (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (1): 155-156. 1993.In this book Kovacs interrogates Heidegger's thought in order to cast light on what the author calls the problem of God. The author, who simply assumes that Heidegger's theory can be described as phenomenology, provides a careful, informed study of this.
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32On war, politics and capitalism after 9/11Theoria 53 (110): 74-96. 2006.9/11 represents less a tear in the fabric of history, or a break with the past, than an inflection in ongoing historical processes, such as the continued expansion of capitalism that at some recent time has supposedly attained a level of globalization. This paper considers the relation of war and politics with respect to three instances arising in the wake of 9/11, including the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and finally the global war on terror (GWT). I argue that these wars are superfici…Read more
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