Joseph Margolis

Art and Philosophy

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Pragmatism without Foundations 2nd ed

Reconciling Realism and Relativism

In this remarkable book, Joseph Margolis, one of America's leading and most celebrated philosophers, examines the relationship between two apparently ...

What, After All, Is a Work of Art?

Lectures in the Philosophy of Art

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Toward a Metaphysics of Culture

Toward a Metaphysics of Culture provides an initial, minimal, and original analysis of the concept of uniquely enlanguaged cultures of the human world...

Three paradoxes of personhood

The venetian lectures

The starting point of Joseph Margolis’ last philosophical effort is represented by the problem of the human “gap” in animal continuity: “There...

Moral Philosophy After 9/11

Were the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks courageous &"freedom fighters&" or despicable terrorist murderers? These opposing characterizations reveal i...

Selves and Other Texts

The Case for Cultural Realism

Extending his well-known investigations into the nature and logic of art and history in the cultural world, Joseph Margolis here offers a sustained ac...

The Critical Margolis

Pragmatism's revival since 1980 can be credited to several thinkers, among them the longtime professor of philosophy at Temple University, Joseph Marg...

Reinventing Pragmatism

American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century

In contemporary philosophical debates in the United States "redefining pragmatism" has become the conventional way to flag significant philosophical c...

Philosophy Looks at the Arts

Contemporary Readings in Aesthetics

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Pragmatism's Advantage

American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century

Pragmatism's Advantage is a highly original reading of the contemporary interplay between pragmatism and continental European philosophy based on an u...

Pragmatism Ascendent

A Yard of Narrative, a Touch of Prophecy

Pragmatism Ascendent is the last of four volumes on the contribution of pragmatism to American philosophy and Western philosophy as a whole. It covers...

Persons and Minds

The Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism

Persons and Minds is an inquiry into the possibilities of materialism. Professor Margolis starts his investigation, however, with a critique of the ra...

Culture and Cultural Entities

Toward a New Unity of Science

viii choice and these include efforts to provide logical frameworks within which wecan make senseof these notions. This series will attempt to bring t...

The Language of Art & Art Criticism

Analytic Questions in Aesthetics

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The Unraveling of Scientism

American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century

The Unraveling of Scientism, a companion to Joseph Margolis's Reinventing Pragmatism, follows the thread of American analytic philosophy through the s...

Knowledge & Existence

An Introduction to Philosophical Problems

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The Arts and the Definition of the Human

Toward a Philosophical Anthropology

The Arts and the Definition of the Human introduces a novel theory that our selves—our thoughts, perceptions, creativity, and other qualities that m...

Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly

The New Puzzle of the Arts and History

With this challenging work, Joseph Margolis continues the project begun in The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993). Tackling on...

History, Historicity and Science

This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as...

The Flux of History and the Flux of Science

Does thinking have a history? If there are no necessarily changeless structures to be found in things and in our inquiry into them, then what knowledg...

Philosophy Looks at the Arts

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Pragmatism Without Foundations

Reconciling Realism and Relativism

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The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism

Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused pr...

Negativities, the Limits of Life

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The Truth about Relativism

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Culture and Cultural Entities

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Life Without Principles

Reconciling Theory and Practice

Life Without Principles d adds a fourth volume to the trilogy published under the general title The Persistence of Reality d. I demonstrates why theor...

Psychotherapy & Morality

A Study of Two Concepts

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The Persistence of Reality

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Psychology

Designing the Discipline

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