Vanderbilt University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1973
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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    Reviews (review)
    with William J. Gavin and Craig Nation
    Studies in Soviet Thought 38 (2): 183-192. 1989.
  • On Fichte and Idealism
    Fichte-Studien 31 69-79. 2007.
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    Fichte and the Phenomenological Tradition (edited book)
    with Violetta L. Waibel and Daniel Breazeale
    de Gruyter. 2010.
    This volume is a collection of previously unpublished papers dealing with the neglected "phenomenological" dimension of the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which it compares and contrasts to the phenomenology of his contemporary Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and to that of Edmund Husserl and his 20th century followers. Issues discussed include: phenomenological method, self-consciousness, intersubjectivity, temporality, intentionality, mind and body, and the drives. In addition to Fichte, …Read more
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    Brandom, Hegel and inferentialism
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 10 (4). 2002.
    In the course of developing a semantics with epistemological intent, Brandom claims that his inferentialism is Hegelian. This paper argues that, even on a charitable reading, Brandom is an anti-Hegelian.
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    Reviews (review)
    Studies in East European Thought 21 (3): 275-277. 1980.
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    Interprétations Hégéliennes de Marx
    Symposium 19 (2): 212-232. 2015.
    Marx est un grand penseur et, selon divers critères, un des plus importants des temps modernes. L’enjeu ici est de cerner ce que Marx peut nous apporter aujourd’hui sur le plan philosophique. Le déclin soudain du marxisme officiel présente une occasion de faire ressortir le côté philosophique de Marx. Or voici quatre conditions afin de cerner la philosophie marxienne. Ces conditions relèvent du marxisme, de Hegel, de l’économie politique, et du modèle marxien de la société industrialisée moderne
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    Fichte, German Idealism, and the Thing in Itself
    In Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte, German Idealism, and Early Romanticism, Rodopi. pp. 9--20. 2010.
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    The selected proceedings of a meeting on the German idealist philosopher (1762-1814), held at Duquesne U., Pittsburgh, in February 1992. Among the topics in 13 papers: Fichte's dialectical imagination; Fichte and the typology of mysticism; Leibniz and Fichte; and Fichte and the relationship between right and morality. Includes an excellent 29-page bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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    Miklos Vetö, "Le Fondement Selon Schelling" (review)
    Man and World 16 (1): 78. 1983.
  • Hegel’s Circular Epistemology
    Studies in Soviet Thought 36 (3): 221-223. 1986.
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    Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 60 (1): 180-181. 2006.
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    Aspects of Heidegger in France
    Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 4 (1): 21-30. 1992.
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    Hermeneutische Wahrheit? (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 24 (3): 335-337. 1984.
  • F C Beiser's The Fate Of Reason. German Philosophy From Kant To Fichte (review)
    Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 17 41-44. 1988.
  • Michel Henry, "Marx" (review)
    Man and World 11 (3): 429. 1978.
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    Critical Notices
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 7 (1): 89-118. 1999.
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    Pavel Apostol: R. I. P
    Studies in East European Thought 29 (2): 87-87. 1985.
  • Heidegger's Politics And French Philosophy
    Existentia 2 (1-4): 233-253. 1992.
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    Epistemology As Hermeneutics
    The Monist 73 (2): 115-133. 1990.
    Recent discussion has seen an increase in the interest in hermeneutics. The increased interest in hermeneutics goes back at least until the appearance of Being and Time in 1927, more than sixty years ago. Thisbookis characterized by the unresolved tension between two clearly incompatible theses: the Husserlian form of absolute truth, and a post-Husserlian view of truth arising from the hermeneutical circle. More recently, the interest in hermeneutics has been strengthened by the appearance of Tr…Read more
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    Recent Philosophical Perspectives on Lukács in the West
    Studies in Soviet Thought 31 (1): 39-46. 1986.
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    Modernity and reason: Habermas and Hegel (review)
    Man and World 22 (2): 233-246. 1989.
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    Hegel and Epistemological Constructivism
    Idealistic Studies 36 (3): 183-190. 2006.
    This is a paper about Hegelian constructivism in relation to theory of knowledge. Constructivism, which is known at least since Greek antiquity, is understood in different ways. In philosophy, epistemological constructivism is often rejected, and only occasionally studied. Kantian constructivism is examined from time to time under the heading of the Copernican revolution. Hegelian constructivism, which is best understood as a reaction to and revision of Kantian epistemology, seems never to have …Read more
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    Tradition(s) (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 36 (1): 347-348. 2004.
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    Art and Truth After Plato
    University of Chicago Press. 2013.
    In Art and Truth after Plato, Tom Rockmore argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered—and to demonstrate that, he offers a comprehensive account of Plato’s influence through nearly the whole history of Western ...
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    On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy
    University of California Press. 1991.
    Given the significant attachment of the philosopher to the climate and intellectual mood of National Socialism, it would be inappropriate to criticize or exonerate his political decision in isolation from the very principles of Heideggerian philosophy itself. It is not Heidegger, who, in opting for Hitler, "misunderstood himself"; instead, those who cannot understand why he acted this way have failed to understand him. A Swiss professor regretted that Heidegger consented to compromise himself wi…Read more