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31Hegel's Circular Epistemology as AntifoundationalismHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 6 (1). 1989.
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Response To Errol Harris's Review Of "Hegel's Circular Epistemology"Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 15 55-56. 1987.
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Before and After 9/11: Religion, Politics, and EthicsArs Disputandi 7. 2007.My topic concerns the interrelation between religion, politics and ethics in a time of terror, or at least a historical moment when the general problem of terrorism has come to occupy center stage. The frequent view that 9/11 represents a wholly new situation, a break with the past makes it difficult, perhaps impossible to understand it. I believe that it is because 9/11 does not break with but continues tendencies already underway that it occurred and we can understand it. My paper, which insis…Read more
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41Marx between Feuerbach and HegelIdealistic Studies 42 (2-3): 109-118. 2012.This paper is about the uses made of Feuerbach’s position in Marxist hagiography as part of the process of the conceptual and political canonization of Marx
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25Interpretation as Historical, Constructivism, and HistoryMetaphilosophy 31 (1-2): 184-199. 2000.Interpretation is construed, here, as synonymous with hermeneutics: understood as a source of knowledge – perhaps, after the apparently irremediable decline of epistemological foundationalism, the main modern epistemological strategy. In this sense, there is no difference in principle between epistemology and interpretation; the first is a form of the second.
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8Vico y el constructivismoCuadernos Sobre Vico 11 (12): 193-199. 1999.Este trabajo recorre el constructivismo epistemológico de Vico. Por "constructivismo" se entiende la visión de que el objeto cognitivo no es algo simplemente dado sino en cierto modo "construido" por el sujeto como una condición de conocimiento. Se piensa que en este camino Vico figura como uno de los más importantes innovadores epistemológicos de los tiempos modernos. Vico entendió que, no pudiendo nosotros conocer independientemente la realidad, las condiciones de conocimiento son entonces, de…Read more
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16Philosophy, Literature, and Intellectual ResponsibilityAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 30 (2). 1993.
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12Kantian Ethics in Being and TimeJournal of Philosophical Research 31 309-334. 2006.Heidegger’s Being and Time has been accused of espousing empty decisionism and relativism. I argue, first, that in fact Being and Time’s stress on the situated character of human judgment is supplemented by a very Kantian account of being human that defi nes appropriate behavior towards all entities possessing a certain character. Its analysis of conscience and guilt attempts to uncover the existential basis for the distinction Kant draws between the phenomenal and the noumenal aspects of the se…Read more
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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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35Antifoundationalism old and new (edited book)Temple University Press. 1992.The debate over foundationalism, the viewpoint that there exists some secure foundation upon which to build a system of knowledge, appears to have been resolved and the antifoundationalists have at least temporarily prevailed. From a firmly historical approach, the book traces the foundationalism/antifoundationalism controversy in the work of many important figures Animaxander, Aristotle and Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Hegel and Nietzsche, Habermas and Chisholm, and others throughout the histor…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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Hegel, the concept of man as actor, and modern German philosophyArchives de Philosophie 44 (1): 3-18. 1981.
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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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14Fichte and Sartre on Cartesian Freedom and Rousseau’s ProblemIn Violetta L. Waibel (ed.), Fichte Und Sartre Über Freiheit: Das Ich Und der Andere, De Gruyter. pp. 93-108. 2015.
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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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9Reading 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
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28Ambiguity and orthodoxy: Bertram Wolfe's view of Marx and MarxismStudies in East European Thought 20 (4): 349-360. 1979.The purpose of this paper is to study bertram wolfe's views of marx and marxism, and in particular to call attention to his insistence on the basic ambiguity of the classical doctrines and the exploitation of that ambiguity within differing concepts of marxist orthodoxy. i suggest that the importance of wolfe's views of marx and marxism lies less in the specific theses he advances or in the details of his discussion. in opposition to the more usual approach to marxism as a unified phenomenon, wo…Read more
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20Hegel on Epistemological Circularity and CertaintyInternational Philosophical Quarterly 21 (3): 235-248. 1981.
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94TILES, MARY [1984]: Bachelard: Science and Objectivity. Cambridge University Press. xxii+242 pp. (ISBN 0-521-24803-5 hard covers; 0-521-28973-4 paperback) (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (4): 529-531. 1986.
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20Die transzendentale naturlehre fichtes nach den prinzipien der wissenschaftslehreJournal of the History of Philosophy 25 (3): 455-456. 1987.
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10On Heidegger and National Socialism: A Triple Turn?Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 14 (2-1): 423-439. 1991.
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3Hegels »glauben Und Wissen« Und Kants Konstruktivistischer Epistemologischer AnsatzHegel-Jahrbuch 7 (1): 188-190. 2005.
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1Critical noticesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 11 (1). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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