Vanderbilt University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1973
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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    Hegel and the hermeneutics of German idealism
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 3 (1). 1995.
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    A Progress Report on Cognitive Foundationalism and Metaphysical Realism
    Epistemology 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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    Introduction
    Metaphilosophy 35 (3): 231-233. 2004.
  • Hegel y los límites del hegelianismo analítico
    Contrastes: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 8 123-137. 2003.
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    Fichte, Ethics, and Transcendental Philosophy
    Philosophy Today 52 (3-4): 252-258. 2008.
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    Reviews (review)
    with Frederick J. Adelmann and Timothy E. O'Connor
    Studies in East European Thought 41 (3): 233-242. 1991.
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    Some Problems in Recent Pragmatism
    History of Philosophy Quarterly 10 (3). 1993.
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    A New Look at Croce’s Historicism
    Idealistic 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
  • Hegel és az analitikus hegelianizmus korlátai
    Magyar Filozofiai Szemle 1. 2002.
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    Foundationalism and Hegelian Logic
    The 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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    Reason, Truth, and Reality
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (4): 449-451. 2010.
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    Marx’s Attempt to Leave Philosophy (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 180-181. 2003.
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    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
  •  49
    The 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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    On recovering Marx after Marxism
    Philosophy and Social Criticism 26 (4): 95-106. 2000.
    If Marx is to survive as a source of unparalleled insight into the modern world, he needs to be recovered. This article will begin to address some of the difficulties which arise in recovering Marx, above all the need to free Marx from Marxism. Marx has always been studied through Marxism, hence in a way which profoundly distorts his philosophical ideas. If we remove this Marxist 'filter', we see a rather different, more philosophical, and more philosophically-interesting thinker, Hegel's most i…Read more
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    Dufrenne, Humanism, and Anti-humanism
    Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 11 (1): 72-83. 1999.
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    Remarks on Fichte and Realism
    Fichte-Studien 36 21-32. 2012.
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    Lukács et la lecture marxiste de Hegel
    Laval Théologique et Philosophique 43 (1): 81-90. 1987.
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    German Philosophy 1760–1860 (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 44 (2): 270-271. 2004.
  • On Fichte and Idealism
    Fichte-Studien 31 69-79. 2007.
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    Heidegger, German idealism & neo-Kantianism (edited book)
    Humanity Books. 2000.
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  • Cognition. An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 60 (4): 763-765. 1997.
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    Reading Hegel's Phenomenology (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (4): 493-494. 2005.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Reading Hegel’s PhenomenologyTom RockmoreJohn Russon. Reading Hegel’s Phenomenology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. xi + 299. Cloth, $50.00. Paper, $27.95.Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has been increasingly studied in ever-greater detail in recent years. In John Russon's interpretive study of Hegel's theories in this book, explanation is tightly constrained by the core argument of its various sections.…Read more