Philosopher

Tom Rockmore

Overview

Thomas 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.

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Philosophers who discussed Tom Rockmore

• Gottlob Frege
• Ernst Platner

Ideas Tom Rockmore discusses

• Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Philosophical realism
• Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant
• Karl Marx
• Marxism
• Aesthetics
• German idealism
• Political philosophy
• Yale University
• Martin Heidegger
• Fordham University
• György Lukács
• Direct and indirect realism
• History of philosophy
• Epistemology
• John Lachs

Place in the tradition

Part of Direct and indirect realism.

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