Vanderbilt University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1973
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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    Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism
    with Daniel Breazeale, Benjamin D. Crowe, Jeffrey Edwards, Yukio Irie, Christian Tewes, Michael Vater, and Günter Zöller
    Lexington Books. 2014.
    Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy
  • Is Fichte a Kantian, a German idealist, both, or neither?
    In Benjamin D. Crowe & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre: essays on the "Science of knowing", State University of New York Press. pp. 313-327. 2024.
  • The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy
    Bowling Green State Univ philosophy. 1999.
    Despite the attacks on metaphysics in the 20th century, the field remains surprising alive, not less robust, less interesting, nor ready to be consigned to the dustbin of history. The essays assembled in this volume, which come from all areas of the metaphysical tradition, are all by authors who are committed to the kind of metaphysics which Hume and later Kant recommended, although naturally they regard what good metaphysics is in very different ways. Contributors include D. P. Chattoppadhyaya,…Read more
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    While most people agree that September 11, 2001, witnessed a terribly important series of events, opinions about the meaning of these events diverge sharply. This book searches for sense in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Consisting of fourteen essays written by leading philosophers, most of which have been specially commissioned for this volume, it offers a philosophical reflection on the implications of 9/11. The contributors engage with a broad range of issues associated with the c…Read more
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    John Dewey and Continental Philosophy (edited book)
    with Paul Fairfield, James Scott Johnston, James A. Good, Jim Garrison, Barry Allen, Joseph Margolis, Sandra B. Rosenthal, Richard J. Bernstein, David Vessey, C. G. Prado, Colin Koopman, Antonio Calcagno, and Inna Semetsky
    Southern Illinois University Press. 2010.
    _John Dewey and Continental Philosophy_ provides a rich sampling of exchanges that could have taken place long ago between the traditions of American pragmatism and continental philosophy had the lines of communication been more open between Dewey and his European contemporaries. Since they were not, Paul Fairfield and thirteen of his colleagues seek to remedy the situation by bringing the philosophy of Dewey into conversation with several currents in continental philosophical thought, from post…Read more
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    After Jena: New Essays on Fichte's Later Philosophy (edited book)
    Northwestern University Press. 2008.
    The career of J. G. Fichte, a central figure in German idealism and in the history of philosophy, divides into two distinct phases: the first period, in which he occupied the chair of critical philosophy at the University of Jena ; and the following period, after he left Jena for Berlin. Due in part to the inaccessibility of the German texts, Fichte scholarship in the English-speaking world has tended to focus on the Jena period, neglecting the development of this major thinker's mature developm…Read more
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    Preface by the Editors to the special thematic volume dedicated to the memory of Jakub Kloc-Konkołowicz.
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    European and American Philosophers
    with John Marenbon, Douglas Kellner, Richard D. Parry, Gregory Schufreider, Ralph McInerny, Andrea Nye, R. M. Dancy, Vernon J. Bourke, A. A. Long, James F. Harris, Thomas Oberdan, Paul S. MacDonald, Véronique M. Fóti, F. Rosen, James Dye, Pete A. Y. Gunter, Lisa J. Downing, W. J. Mander, Peter Simons, Maurice Friedman, Robert C. Solomon, Nigel Love, Mary Pickering, Andrew Reck, Simon J. Evnine, Iakovos Vasiliou, John C. Coker, Georges Dicker, James Gouinlock, Paul J. Welty, Gianluigi Oliveri, Jack Zupko, Wayne M. Martin, Ladelle McWhorter, Hans-Johann Glock, Georgia Warnke, John Haldane, Joseph S. Ullian, Steven Rieber, David Ingram, Nick Fotion, George Rainbolt, Thomas Sheehan, Gerald J. Massey, Barbara D. Massey, David E. Cooper, David Gauthier, James M. Humber, J. N. Mohanty, Michael H. Dearmey, Oswald O. Schrag, Ralf Meerbote, George J. Stack, John P. Burgess, Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Nicholas Jolley, Adriaan T. Peperzak, E. J. Lowe, William D. Richardson, Stephen Mulhall, and C.
    In Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.
    Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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    Hegel
    In Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Hegel's Interest in History and the French Revolution Hegel and the Philosophy of History Hegel and the History of Philosophy Hegel's Historical Approach to Knowledge References.
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    Marx
    In Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: On the Marxist Reading of Marx's Philosophy of History Marx's Philosophy of History Marx on History and Freedom Marx's Historical Approach to Cognition Bibliography.
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    Kant and Twentieth‐Century Philosophy
    In In Kant's Wake, Blackwell. 2006.
    The prelims comprise: Is Kant the Background of Twentieth—Century Philosophy? What was Accomplished in Twentieth—Century Philosophy? Hegel, the Kantian Aftermath, and Twentieth—Century Philosophy.
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    Anglo‐American Analytic Philosophy
    In In Kant's Wake, Blackwell. 2006.
    The prelims comprise: On the Analytic Revolt Against Idealism Analysis, Analyticity, and Analytic Philosophy Moore, Russell, and Early Analytic Philosophy On Wittgenstein Wittgenstein, the Vienna Circle, and Ordinary Language Philosophy Analytic Philosophy in the US.
  • Continental Philosophy as Phenomenology
    In In Kant's Wake, Blackwell. 2006.
    The prelims comprise: Phenomenon, Phenomenalism, and Early Forms of Phenomenology Husserl and the Origins of the Phenomenological Movement Heidegger and Post—Husserlian Phenomenology Sartre, Merleau—Ponty, and French Phenomenology Heidegger's Hermeneutical Students: Gadamer and Derrida.
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    Pragmatism as Epistemology
    In In Kant's Wake, Blackwell. 2006.
    The prelims comprise: On the Origins of Pragmatism and the Theory of Practical Action Peirce on Cartesian Foundationalism and Knowledge James and Pragmatism After Peirce Dewey, or the Pragmatist as Public Intellectual Rorty and Neo—Analytic Pragmatism.
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    Kant and the Post‐Kantian Debate
    In In Kant's Wake, Blackwell. 2006.
    The prelims comprise: On the Modern Philosophical Background On Kant's Relation to the Contemporary Philosophical Background Kant's Letter to Marcus Herz Kant's Two Epistemological Solutions in the Critique of Pure Reason Kant's Copernican Revolution in Philosophy as Constructivism Kant's Copernican Revolution, Science, and Metaphysics Kant's Copernican Revolution in Philosophy and Metaphysics Kant, Hegel, and the Historical Turn.
  • On Marxism in the Wentieth Century
    In In Kant's Wake, Blackwell. 2006.
    The prelims comprise: Marx, Marxism, and Feuerbach Marxism and Engels's Feuerbach Lukács, Korsch, Kojéve, and Hegelian Marxism Horkheimer, Critical Theory, and the Frankfurt School On Marcuse and Adorno Excursus on Habermas and Marxism.
  • Toward Interpreting Twentieth‐Century Philosophy
    In In Kant's Wake, Blackwell. 2006.
  • Introduction
    In In Kant's Wake, Blackwell. 2006.
  • Notes
    In In Kant's Wake, Blackwell. 2006.
    The prelims comprise: Chapter 1 Toward Interpreting Twentieth—Century Philosophy Chapter 2 Kant and the Post‐Kantian Debate Chapter 3 On Marxism in the Twentieth Century Chapter 4 Pragmatism as Epistemology Chapter 5 Continental Philosophy as Phenomenology Chapter 6 Anglo—American Analytic Philosophy Chapter 7 Kant and Twentieth—Century Philosophy.
  • Index
    In In Kant's Wake, Blackwell. 2006.
    The prelims comprise: Half Title Title Copyright Contents.
  • Karl Marx
    In John Shand (ed.), Central Works of Philosophy V3: Nineteenth Century, Routledge. pp. 183-208. 2005.
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    Reviews (review)
    with Thomas Nemeth, Lauren G. Leighton, Thomas A. Shipka, Irving H. Anellis, S. M. Easton, John W. Murphy, and F. A. Seddon
    Studies in East European Thought 25 (3): 67-77. 1983.
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    Reviews (review)
    Studies in Soviet Thought 44 (1): 67-77. 1992.
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    Reviews (review)
    Studies in East European Thought 44 (1): 67-77. 1992.
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    Reviews (review)
    with Philip Grier and John W. Murphy
    Studies in Soviet Thought 21 (1): 89-108. 1980.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Michael Beaney, Paul Lennon, Mark Dooley, Mark Haugaard, Susan Mendus, David Evans, Joel Katzav, Victor E. Taylor, Garin V. Dowd, Cynthia Macdonald, Attracta Ingram, and Michael Slote
    Humana Mente 4 (2): 328-359. 1996.
  • The Heidegger case: on philosophy and politics (edited book)
    Temple University Press. 1992.
    "[These] essays together form an extraordinary response, and radical but not self-righteous challenge, to Heidegger's unambiguous complicity with Hitler and Nazism....This book will provoke intense dialogue and controversy about issues which, for too long, too many philosophers have chosen either to gloss over or ignore." --Ronald E. Santoni The relation between Martin Heidegger's philosophical thought and his political commitment has been widely discussed in recent years, following the publicat…Read more
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    Reviews (review)
    with Thomas A. Shipka, Charles E. Ziegler, Maureen Henry, Thomas Nemeth, T. J. Blakeley, Susan M. Easton, John D. Windhausen, Wilhelm S. Heiliger, James G. Colbert, and Oliva Blanchette
    Studies in East European Thought 24 (4): 67-77. 1982.