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104The Relevance of Systematic Dialectics to Marxian Thought: A Reply to RosenthalHistorical Materialism 4 (1): 215-240. 1999.In his recent work The Myth of Dialectics John Rosenthal presents a forceful polemic against Hegel and Marxists sympathetic to the Hegelian legacy. The methodology Hegel employed, his metaphysical assertions, his rejection of the principles of formal logic, and the political implications of his standpoint, are all fundamentally incompatible with Marx’s perspective, according to Rosenthal. While Rosenthal grants that Marx did make use of Hegelian motifs in his theory of value, even this is not to…Read more
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92Segregation That No One SeeksPhilosophy of Science 79 (1): 38-62. 2012.This paper examines a series of Schelling-like models of residential segregation, in which agents prefer to be in the minority. We demon- strate that as long as agents care about the characteristics of their wider community, they tend to end up in a segregated state. We then investigate the process that causes this, and conclude that the result hinges on the similarity of informational states amongst agents of the same type. This is quite dierent from Schelling-like behavior, and sug- gests (in …Read more
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65The Logic of Marx’s “Capital”: Replies to Hegelian CriticismsState University of New York Press. 1990.In a step-by-step progression through Marx's three volume work, discovers a systematic theory of socio-economic categories ordered according to the dialectical logic derived from Hegel.
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46The Just Economy (review)The Owl of Minerva 21 (1): 103-114. 1989.Richard Dien Winfield’s long awaited work, The Just Economy, deserves to be read by anyone interested in social and political philosophy. For those with a special interest in Hegel’s social and political thinking the point can be put even stronger. This work might well be the most significant study of this aspect of Hegel’s thought published in English this decade.
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42The neoclassical and Marxian theories of technology: a comparison and critical assessmentHistorical Materialism 1 (1): 113-133. 1997.Neoclassical economics remains the leading theoretical alternative to Marxian economics. In this article I shall contrast the accounts of technical change in capitalism proposed by both theories. I shall introduce five criteria relevant to a comparison of competing social theories, and argue that the Marxian perspective on technical change in capitalism is superior on all five counts.
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42On the Homology ThesisHistorical Materialism 11 (1): 185-194. 2003.Chris Arthur‟s body of work counts as a very important and original contribution to systematic dialectics, and I have profited immensely from his writings over the years. However we disagree on a number of points. Some have to do with the relatively secondary question of the intellectual relationship between Hegel and Marx; others involve more substantive matters. In his reply to my review of Joseph McCarney‟s Hegel on History Arthur distinguishes three different versions of the thesis that ther…Read more
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36Dialectics of Labor (review)The Owl of Minerva 22 (1): 108-112. 1990.Marx’s 1844 Manuscripts have been known in the West for over half a century now. Since then few Marxist theorists have ignored them. One might think that little new remained to be said. One would be wrong. C. J. Arthur’s major study of the Manuscripts deepens our understanding of them considerably. In doing so, it also illuminates in precise terms Marx’s shifting relationship to his predecessors in the course of his early development.
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32Hegel's Logic and Marx's Concept of CapitalHegel Bulletin 43 (2): 278-290. 2022.Arash Abazari's Hegel's Ontology of Power is a superb study of the relevance of Hegel's logic to Marx's theory. Hegel is often dismissed by Marxists as an ‘idealist’ denying the reality of the world, as if Hegel were Bishop Berkeley with a German accent.1 Abazari recognizes this is not the case: ‘(T)he logical categories are not self-standing, but shadow, or track, the empirical world’ (Abazari 2020: 7). But the world in its full actuality does not simply consist of the objects we sense or perce…Read more
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32Social Theory and the Crisis of Marxism (review)Radical Philosophy Review of Books 3 (3): 27-29. 1991.
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27Hegel: Mystic Dunce or Important Predecessor? A Reply to John RosenthalHistorical Materialism 10 (2): 191-205. 2002.
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27Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom (review)International Studies in Philosophy 36 (4): 132-133. 2004.
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26Ideology and False Consciousness (review)International Studies in Philosophy 27 (4): 128-129. 1995.
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21Marx’s Hegelian Critique of HegelPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (54): 11-32. 2019.Hegel conceptualized the capitalist economy as a system of needs, with commodities and money serving as means to human ends. While anticipating Marx’s criticisms of certain tendencies in capitalism, Hegel insisted that higher-order institutions, especially those of the modern state, could put them out of play and establish a reconciliation of universality, particularity, and individuality warranting rational affirmation. Hegel, however, failed to comprehend the emergence of capital as a dominant…Read more
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21Dialectics for the new century (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2008.This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main debates in the field, and a good picture of the current state of the art of dialectics
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19The Debate Regarding Dialectical Logic in Marx’s Economic WritingsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 30 (3): 289-298. 1990.
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17Philip J. Kain, "Marx and Modern Political Theory: From Hobbes to Contemporary Feminism" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 33 (3): 529. 1995.
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17The neoclassical and Marxian theories of technology: a comparison and critical assessmentHistorical Materialism 1 (1): 113-133. 1997.Neoclassical economics remains the leading theoretical alternative to Marxian economics. In this article I shall contrast the accounts of technical change in capitalism proposed by both theories. I shall introduce five criteria relevant to a comparison of competing social theories, and argue that the Marxian perspective on technical change in capitalism is superior on all five counts.
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16[Book review] dialectical social theory and its critics, from Hegel to analytical marxism and postmodernism (review)Science and Society 59 (1): 109-112. 1993.
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16economists. According to Rosenberg, Milton Friedman's positive methodology is being supplanted by Lakatos's methodology of scientific research programs (MSRP). At any rate, the Kuhnian wave of the seventies is being swallowed up by the Lakatosian program. (Redman 142) There have been a number of attempts to comprehend mainstream (bourgeois) economics as a Lakatosian research program, or as a set of competing research programs. (Latsis, ed. passim; de Marchi and Blaug, eds.)i In contrast, the ext…Read more
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13Flexible Production and the Habermasian Social PhilosophyInternational Studies in Philosophy 27 (4): 85-100. 1995.