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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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63. Hegel, Idealism, and KnowledgeIn Hegel, Idealism, and Analytic Philosophy, Yale University Press. pp. 165-228. 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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79On 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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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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7Philosophy or Weltanschauung? Heidegger on HönigswaldHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 16 (1). 1999.
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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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