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31Hegel's Circular Epistemology as AntifoundationalismHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 6 (1). 1989.
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22Lukács on Classical German Philosophy and MarxIdealistic Studies 10 (3): 209-231. 1980.The importance of Lukács’ interpretation of classical German philosophy and Marx is almost self-evident. Although Marxists are frequently content to dismiss with contempt a philosophical tradition with which they display scant acquaintance, Lukács’ knowledge of philosophy is obviously extensive. His writings contain what is perhaps the most detailed discussion of the history of philosophy from a Marxist perspective. Further, his influence on the interpretation of Marx has been unequaled over the…Read more
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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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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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13Fichte 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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11Kantian 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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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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Hegel, the concept of man as actor, and modern German philosophyArchives de Philosophie 44 (1): 3-18. 1981.
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4Penelope's Web: Reconstruction of Philosophy and the Relevance of ReasonJournal of Speculative Philosophy 7 (2). 1993.
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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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38Marx, Marxism, and philosophical modernityStudies in East European Thought 25 (3): 165-184. 1983.
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19Die transzendentale naturlehre fichtes nach den prinzipien der wissenschaftslehreJournal of the History of Philosophy 25 (3): 455-456. 1987.
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58Piotre Hoffman, "The Anatonomy of Idealism: Passivity and Activity in Kant, Hegel, and Marx" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 23 (1): 118. 1985.
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1Fichte on knowledge, practice, and historyIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), After Jena: New Essays on Fichte's Later Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2008.
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6Reason, Truth, and RealityInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (4): 449-451. 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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3Hegels »glauben Und Wissen« Und Kants Konstruktivistischer Epistemologischer AnsatzHegel-Jahrbuch 7 (1): 188-190. 2005.
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28Marx’s Attempt to Leave Philosophy (review)International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 180-181. 2003.
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1Critical noticesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 11 (1). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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