Joseph Margolis 
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 Margolis.
The Critical Margolis collects within one volume more than a dozen of his essential writings, allowing readers to become familiar with his important contributions to core areas of philosophy, where he has controversially challenged scientistic, analytic, and continental traditions. During a period when sharp divides animate intellectual debates—realism or idealism, matter or mind, causality or freedom, machines or persons, facts or values, cognition or emotion, and the like—Margolis dissolves false dichotomies and reconstructs philosophy itself. Prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century, from Quine, Danto, and Putnam to Derrida, Rorty, and Brandom, along with a host of similarly significant thinkers, are targets of Margolis’s critiques.



If there could be a comprehensive volume of pragmatism for today and tomorrow,
The Critical Margolis shall serve.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments



Editor’s Preface to
The Critical Margolis
Russell Pryba



Primary Works by Joseph Margolis



Preamble: Pragmatism’s Solidarity




Part I



1. Relativism and Cultural Relativity



2. Objectivism and Relativism



3. Science as a Human Undertaking



4. Reclaiming Naturalism




Part II



5. Change and History



6. Mind and Culture



7. Selves and Other Texts




Part III



8. The Definition of the Human



9. What, After All, Is a Work of Art?



10. The Eclipse and Recovery of Analytic Aesthetics




Part IV



11. Life without Principles



12. The Nature of Normativity



13. A Reasonable Morality for Partisans and Ideologues



Notes

Index

About the author

Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University.
Russell Pryba is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Northern Arizona University.