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Professor Joseph Margolis
Provides an introduction to philosophy in the tradition of The Problems of Philosophy and Central Questions of Philosophy . This book focuses on Western Philosophy, of epistemology, ontology, language and…
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Examines the relationship between two apparently contradictory philosophical tendencies - realism and relativism. This book establishes a taxonomy of different kinds of realism and relativism. It looks at the various…
Joseph Margolis
This critical reader covers Joseph Margolis’s controversial views of mind, truth, science, and reality, along with his revolutionary theories about culture, art, language, personhood, and morality.
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The Unraveling of Scientism , a companion to Joseph Margolis’s Reinventing Pragmatism , follows the thread of American analytic philosophy through the second half of the 20th century, the period…
In The Arts and the Definition of the Human, Margolis introduces a novel theory of the human person or self as a historical artifact and argues that important topics in…
Pragmatism’s Advantage is a highly original reading of the contemporary interplay between pragmatism and continental European philosophy based on an unexpectedly inventive union of Hegelian and Darwinian themes.
Offers an introduction to analytic aesthetics. This book helps define the structure of aesthetics in 24 articles.
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This book combines a detailed and documented appraisal of the present state of pragmatism as a viable philosophy and a bold conception of how it may be most effectively strengthened…
Reinventing Pragmatism examines the force of the new pragmatisms, from the emergence of Rorty’s and Putnam’s basic disagreements of the 1970s until the turn of the century.
Thus he writes, . their characteristic powers - in effect, their freedom - must inform the order of purely physical causes in a distinctive way (p.
Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology.
This volume contains the proceedings of the first annual Philosophy Colloquium at the University of Western Ontario, which have been revised for publication. The give and take of scholarly debate…
Tackling one of philosophy’s key themes, this book develops the controversial thesis that the world is a flux. It applies this doctrine to Western theories of history and the interpretation…
Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, history, language, agency…
This treatise argues for a radical re-evaluation of history that views it as both a real process and a narrative account, each a product of continual change. The author develops…
Joseph Margolis (Temple University)
Were the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks freedom fighters or terrorist murderers? Eschewing the universal moral principles of traditional Anglo-American analytic philosophy, Joseph Margolis offers an alternative approach that accepts…
Toward a Metaphysics of Culture offers a heterodox account of the human person and its enlanguaged culture as a natural but artifactual transform of the human primate and the physical…
This text directs attention toward historicity, the inherent historied nature of thinking, and the artifactual, culturally emergent nature of art and human selves. It applies these themes to several issues…
Extending his investigations into the nature and logic of art and history in the cultural world, Joseph Margolis here offers a sustained account of how selves and the cultural phenomena…
Presents a collection of essays that questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, our understanding of its validity, and our general conception of knowledge. This book considers…
This final book by Joseph Margolis gives a comprehensive idea to the reader about the ultimate goal reached by this American philosopher at the end of his long intellectual career.
Joseph Margolis (Columbia University)
What is art? Must art be beautiful? Must art be politically or culturally significant? How does art differ from other products of human activity? This book introduces the readers to…
Peter Kivy
Discussing how music possesses expressive properties, this title incorporates the text of The Corded Shell , answering various criticisms.
This is a lively, freshly invited collection of papers by a number of well-known philosophers and other specialists who have focused very pointedly on certain central conceptual puzzles posed by…
Professor Joseph Margolis (Temple University Temple University, USA)
Philosophy Looks At The Arts: Contemporary Readings In Aesthetics is a comprehensive collection of essays and articles edited by Joseph Margolis. The book explores the relationship between philosophy and the…
A Companion to Pragmatism, comprised of 38 newly commissioned essays, provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most vibrant and exciting fields of philosophy today. * Unique in depth and…
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Joseph Margolis (Temple University),Jacques N. Catudal (Drexel)
This volume attempts to engage the reader’s active participation in understanding how philosophy came to be split between analytic and continental approaches and in finding ways to reconcile the two…
Victor Farias
Tracks the career of Martin Heidegger - one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy - and documents his intimate involvement with Nazism for much of his professional life…
The member schools of the Consortium now include Bryn Mawr College, the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and Villanova University, that is, the schools of the area that offer advanced…
In this book, fourteen leading philosophers reflect on the philosophical implications of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. * A philosophical reflection on the implications of the terrorist attacks…
This collection of essays deals with some pressing social, cultural and moral concerns. It addresses problems of trans-cultural and intro-cultural understanding due to diverse perceptions of various themes and aims…
Constructivism and Practice advances the understanding of the role of construction and model creation and reflects on the relationship of these models to social practices.
Pragmatist Epistemologies unites new trends in the study of knowledge inspired by the pragmatist tradition. Edited by Robert Frega, this collection of articles from leading American and European scholars engages…
Bina Gupta
In this work, a distinguished international group of philosophers offers critical assessments of eminent philosopher J. N. Mohanty’s work on phenomenology and Indian philosophy. The concluding chapter by Mohanty responds…
