The Critical Margolis

<p><b>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.</b></p><p>Pragmatism's revival since 1980 can be credited to several thinkers among them the longtime professor of philosophy at Temple University Joseph Margolis. <i>The Critical Margolis</i> 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.</p><p>If there could be a comprehensive volume of pragmatism for today and tomorrow <i>The Critical Margolis</i> shall serve.</p>