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  • The Critical Margolis

    by Joseph Margolis, Russell Pryba ...
    Series series SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
    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.Pragmatism's revival since 1980 can be credited to several thinkers, among them the longtime professor of philosophy at Temple University, Joseph Margolis. The Critical Margolis collects within one ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Philosophical I

    Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy

    by Nicholas Rescher, Sandra Harding, Douglas Kellner, Nancey Murphy, Joseph Margolis, Richard Shusterman, Bat-Ami Bar On, John J. Stuhr, Thomas E. Wartenberg, Linda Martín Alcoff, Lorraine Code, John Lachs, Paul C. Taylor, Charles W. Mills, Nancy Tuana ...
    Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophically insightful, these personal narratives critically call into question the belief that philosophy should be kept separate from the personal experience of philosophers. Each contributor traces the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Arts and the Definition of the Human

    Toward a Philosophical Anthropology

    by Joseph Margolis ...
    The Arts and the Definition of the Human introduces a novel theory that our selves—our thoughts, perceptions, creativity, and other qualities that make us human—are determined by our place in history, and more particularly by our culture and language. Margolis rejects the idea that any concepts or truths remain fixed and objective through the flow of history and reveals that this theory of the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Arts and the Definition of the Human

    Toward a Philosophical Anthropology

    by Joseph Margolis ...
    The Arts and the Definition of the Human introduces a novel theory that our selves—our thoughts, perceptions, creativity, and other qualities that make us human—are determined by our place in history, and more particularly by our culture and language. Margolis rejects the idea that any concepts or truths remain fixed and objective through the flow of history and reveals that this theory of the ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Rationality, Relativism and the Human Sciences

    Edited by Joseph Margolis, A.S. Krausz, R. Burian ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium was launched in the early eighties. It began during a particularly lean period in the American economy. But its success is linked as much to the need to be in touch with the rapidly changing currents of the philosophical climate as with the need to insure an adequately stocked professional community in the Philadelphia area faced, perhaps permanently, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Three paradoxes of personhood

    The venetian lectures

    by Joseph Margolis ...
    The starting point of Joseph Margolis’ last philosophical effort is represented by the problem of the human “gap” in animal continuity: “There appear to be no comparable variants of animal evolution [...] effected by anything like the culturally enabled creation”. While we share with other animals more or less refined forms of societal life, acquiring a natural language remains a distinctively ... Read more

    $8.50 USD

  • History, Historicity and Science

    by Joseph Margolis ...
    This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge. The essays in this book consider the philosophical labours spanning the work of Descartes, Kant and Hegel, still the philosophical basis of our modern understanding of science, as well as recent selected ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Toward a Metaphysics of Culture

    by Joseph Margolis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
    Toward a Metaphysics of Culture provides an initial, minimal, and original analysis of the concept of uniquely enlanguaged cultures of the human world and of the distinctive metaphysical features of whatever belongs to the things of that world: preeminently, persons, language, actions, artworks, products, history, practices, institutions, and norms. Emphasis is placed on the artifactual and hybrid ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Pragmatism's Advantage

    American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century

    by Joseph Margolis ...
    This book addresses the rift between major philosophical factions in the United States, which the author describes as a "philosophically becalmed" three-legged creature made up of analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and pragmatism. Joseph Margolis offers a modified pragmatism as the best way out of this stalemate. Whether he is examining Heidegger or rethinking the foibles of Dewey, Rorty ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism

    by Joseph Margolis ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    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, art, interpretation, and the human person or self. For Margolis, the signal problem has always been the same: how can we distinguish between physical nature and human culture? ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Pragmatism Ascendent

    A Yard of Narrative, a Touch of Prophecy

    by Joseph Margolis ...
    Pragmatism Ascendent is the last of four volumes on the contribution of pragmatism to American philosophy and Western philosophy as a whole. It covers the period of American philosophy's greatest influence worldwide, from the second half of the 20th century through the beginning of the 21st. The book provides an account of the way pragmatism reinterprets the revolutionary contributions of Kant and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Persons and Minds

    The Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism

    by Joseph Margolis ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Persons and Minds is an inquiry into the possibilities of materialism. Professor Margolis starts his investigation, however, with a critique of the range of contemporary materialist theories, and does not find them viable. None of them, he argues, "can accommodate in a convincing way the most distinctive features of the mental life of men and oflower creatures and the imaginative possibilities of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD