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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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78On 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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31The Pittsburgh School, The Given and KnowledgeNormative Functionalism and the Pittsburgh School. 2012.The Pittsburgh School, aka the Pittsburgh Hegelians or as the Pittsburgh neo-Hegelians, is often associated with Sellars, McDowell and Brandom. The views of the Pittsburgh School arise on the heels of Sellars’ rejection of the given, but differ in important ways. The difficulty, if one turns away from the given, lies in justifying objective claims to know. I argue that neither Sellars, nor Brandom, nor McDowell successfully justifies claims to know. I further question their supposed Hegelianism.…Read more
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49Idealist Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutics of IdealismIdealistic Studies 12 (2): 91-102. 1982.The recent concern with hermeneutics, which stems above all from Truth and Method, should not be allowed to obscure the fact, to which Gadamer certainly is sensitive, that this topic has a long philosophical lineage, extending back into the tradition at least to Aristotle. In particular, it seems rarely to have been noticed that although their thought is notoriously difficult, the major members of the German idealist tradition provided not only the positions themselves, but a theory of their int…Read more
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5On Recent Trends in Philosophy in the United StatesBudhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 1 (2): 103-112. 1997.
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27Fried, Gregory. Heidegger’s Polemos: From Being to Politics (review)Review of Metaphysics 56 (2): 419-421. 2002.
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53Fichte, German idealism, and early romanticism (edited book)Rodopi. 2010.This volume of 23 previously unpublished essays explores the relationship between the philosophy of J.G. Fichte and that of other leading thinkers associated ...
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31Remarks on Russian Philosophy, Soviet Philosophy, and HistoricismDiogenes 56 (2-3): 84-94. 2009.This paper concerns two themes: my personal experience of Russian philosophy and Russian philosophers on the one hand, and historicism on the other. My account of my limited experience of Russian philosophers and philosophy will be mainly autobiographical. My remarks about historicism will concern a single aspect of the philosophical consequences of the Soviet experience for Russian philosophy. When I come to Russia, I am always surprised by the degree of interest in a historical approach to kno…Read more
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Marxism and Alternatives: Towards the Conceptual Interaction among Soviet Philosophy, Neo-Thomism, Pragmatism and PhenomenologyStudies in Soviet Thought 23 (3): 229-237. 1981.
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