Tom Rockmore - Wikipedia Tom Rockmore From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Tom Rockmore Born March 4, 1942 New York City, New York, USA Era Contemporary philosophy Region Western philosophy School Continental philosophy Main interests German idealism, Marxism, aesthetics Notable ideas Criticism of representationalism Influences Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Lukács Tom Rockmore (born 1942) is an American philosopher. Although he denies the usual distinction between philosophy and the history of philosophy, he has strong interests throughout the history of philosophy and defends a constructivist view of epistemology. The philosophers whom he has studied extensively are Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Lukács, and Heidegger. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1974 and his Habilitation à diriger des recherches from the Université de Poitiers in 1994. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Duquesne University, as well as Distinguished Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University. Contents 1 Philosophy 2 Selected bibliography 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Philosophy[edit] Rockmore is a strong critic of representationalism in epistemology.[1] This is the view that the mind has access to external reality via copies of that reality that the mind receives from the object.[2] It assumes a metaphysical realism, in which there is an external reality independent of the knower. Instead, Rockmore argues for a constructivist view on the basis of which the mind, on the basis of its experience, forms concepts and ideas that become the basis of its knowledge. This shift has significant consequences for phenomenology, aesthetics, and political philosophy. It further questions the transcendental claims particularly of early phenomenology. As a historian of philosophy, Rockmore shows how German idealism influenced the development of both continental and analytic philosophy. He claims that Marx, in particular, was influenced by the thought of Kant, Schelling, Fichte, and Hegel. However, he argues that Marx's thought was significantly misunderstood by Engels. Engels' subsequent influence leads to the development of versions of Marxism that were inconsistent with much in Marx’s original thinking. Rockmore's political philosophy focuses on the effect of representational thinking on certain ideological strains that cause problematic political decisions in both Western and non Western states. Rockmore has also published on aesthetics. Selected bibliography[edit] Fichte, Marx, and the German Philosophical Tradition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980. ISBN 9780809309559 Hegel's Circular Epistemology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. ISBN 9780253327130 Habermas on Historical Materialism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. ISBN 9780253327093 Irrationalism. Lukács and the Marxist View of Reason. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. ISBN 9780877228677 On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. ISBN 9780520077119 Before and After Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel's Thought. Hackett Publishing, 1993. ISBN 9780872206489 Heidegger and French Philosophy: Humanism, Antihumanism and Being. Routledge, 1995. ISBN 9780415111805 On Hegel's Epistemology and Contemporary Philosophy. Humanity Books, 1996. ISBN 9781573923514 Cognition: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN 9780520206618 Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx. London: Wiley Blackwell, 2002. ISBN 9780631231899 On Foundationalism: A Strategy for Metaphysical Realism. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. ISBN 9780742534278 On Constructivist Epistemology. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. ISBN 9780742543201 Hegel, Idealism and Analytic Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 9780300104509 In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. London: Wiley Blackwell, 2006. ISBN 9781405125703 Kant and Idealism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780300120080 Kant and Phenomenology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. ISBN 9780226723402 Before and After 9/11: A Philosophical Examination of Globalization, Terror, and History. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. ISBN 9781441118929 Art and Truth after Plato. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. ISBN 9780226272634 German Idealism as Constructivism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. ISBN 9780226349909 Marx's Dream: From Capitalism to Communism. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2018. ISBN 9780226554525 See also[edit] American philosophy List of American philosophers References[edit] ^ Rockmore, Tom. On Constructivist Epistemology. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1995. ^ Weber, Eric Thomas. Rawls, Dewey and Constructivism: On the Epistemology of Justice. Continuum, 2010, p.1.. External links[edit] Tom Rockmore's webpage at Duquesne University (academic homepage) Authority control BNF: cb12025049d (data) GND: 115574085 ISNI: 0000 0001 0911 896X LCCN: n80048250 NDL: 00822265 NKC: jn19990007093 NLK: KAC2018N2719 NTA: 068615418 PLWABN: 9810592941105606 SUDOC: 028410092 VIAF: 68943089 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n80048250 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Rockmore&oldid=973359353" Categories: American philosophers Continental philosophers Living people 1942 births Heidegger scholars Hidden categories: Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Deutsch 日本語 Edit links This page was last edited on 16 August 2020, at 19:55 (UTC). 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