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2Metaphysics at the End of the CenturyBudhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 3 (2 & 3): 111-122. 1999.
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Père Marcel Régnier (1900-1998): Hommage au Père Marcel REGNIER (1900-1998)Archives de Philosophie 62 (3): 429-442. 1999.
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16Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic PhilosophyYale University Press. 2004.In this book—the first large-scale survey of the complex relationship between Hegel’s idealism and Anglo-American analytic philosophy—Tom Rockmore argues that analytic philosophy has consistently misread and misappropriated Hegel. According to Rockmore, the first generation of British analytic philosophers to engage Hegel possessed a limited understanding of his philosophy and of idealism. Succeeding generations continued to misinterpret him, and recent analytic thinkers have turned Hegel into a…Read more
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45Fichte in the New WorldThe Owl of Minerva 23 (1): 126-128. 1991.It is a fact that Hegel’s immense presence, and above all his own self-serving reading of the history of philosophy as leading up to his own position, has tended to detract attention from other views. Hegel’s position consciously builds upon its predecessors. If philosophy culminates in Hegel’s thought, then other theories are mainly valuable in that they survive as lower moments of the Hegelian synthesis. Hegel insists that he takes up what is positive in prior views. Hence, the mere fact that …Read more
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21New essays on Fichte's later Jena Wissenschaftslehre (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2002.The philosophical thought of J. G. Fichte, particularly his later work, is at the very center of the paradigm shift under way in the field of German idealism. Crucial to this reassessment is Fichte's _Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo_ of 1796 to 1799, the manuscript at the heart of this essay colleciton and an articulation of the philosopher's _Wissenschaftslehre,_ or overall system of philosophy, which he discussed in lectures at the University of Jena. Coherent, comprehensive, and edited by two…Read more
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5The Politics of Salvation (review)Idealistic Studies 16 (3): 279-280. 1986.This is not an ordinary study of Hegel’s thought; it is rather an unusual effort to apply that thought to contemporary issues, in particular to that complex problem known as liberation theology. Lakeland’s approach can be loosely characterized as both right wing Hegelian, in that stress is placed on Christian elements, and as progressive Catholic as concerns the interest in liberation theology. The thesis he advances is that Hegel’s political theology is appropriate to illuminate the connection …Read more
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17Hegel et le constructivisme épistémologiqueRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 53 (1): 103-113. 2007.Il sera question ici d’examiner le constructivisme hégélien, relativement au problème épistémologique. Le constructivisme, comme concept mathématique, est basé sur la construction de l’objet et remonte à l’antiquité grecque. Le constructivisme philosophique, par contre, est un concept moderne qui applique cette stratégie mathématique au problème de la connaissance. La forme hégélienne, omniprésente dans ses écrits, ne semble jamais avoir reçu l’attention qu’elle mérite. Elle se laisse pourtant e…Read more
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Hegel y los límites del hegelianismo analíticoContrastes: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 8 123-137. 2003.
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23Recent Discussion of Heidegger and PoliticsGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 21 (2): 47-67. 1999.There is an obvious distinction between the philosophical meditation on politics and relevance to politics, on the one hand, and the political engagement of philosophers and even philosophy, on the other. At this late date, there can be few people interested in philosophy, and even many uninterested in this ancient discipline, unaware that Martin Heidegger turned to Nazism in the 1930s. Heidegger, who all his life subscribed to the Platonic view of the priority of philosophy over politics, later…Read more
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21Hegel and the hermeneutics of German idealismInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 (1). 1995.
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28On Foundationalism: A Strategy for Metaphysical RealismRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.In ancient times, the main approaches to metaphysical realism were intuitive. In modern times, foundationalism has replaced intuition as the main strategy to make out metaphysical realist claims to know. In On Foundationalism, Rockmore argues that foundationalism fails in all its known variants
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15A Progress Report on Cognitive Foundationalism and Metaphysical RealismEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 39 (1): 53-59. 2014.Metaphysical realism, though not under that name, runs throughout the entire Western tradition at least since Parmenides. His basic ontological claim, that is, that what is is and cannot not be, hence cannot change, influentially creates a central philosophical task. Cognitive foundationalism, whose exemplar is Descartes, is a cognitive strategy intended to respond to metaphysical realism. Plato rejects any form of a representational approach to knowledge in rejecting the backward causal inferen…Read more
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22Report on the Third International Philosophical‐Cultural Symposium on MetaphilosophyMetaphilosophy 29 (1&2): 3-5. 1998.
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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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120Theory and practice again: Habermas on historical materialismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 13 (3): 211-225. 1987.
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14Heidegger 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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11A 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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Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Vol II Metaphysics (edited book)Philosophy Document Center. 1999.
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