Joseph Margolis
Biographic Data
| ID | 279296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Margolis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Margolis |
| SIGNATURE | MARGOLIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 122 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 120 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
La fonction métisse du langage ordinaire: Traduction inédite i ii
Hybride et émergent, artéfactuel et culturel sans cesser d’être naturel, le monde humain tel que l’entend Joseph Margolis est aussi, en cela même, dans ses différentes dimensions, un monde fragile, instable et en perpétuelle reconstruction. Les enquêtes scientifiques et philosophiques ne peuvent en effet s’affranchir d’une condition d’impermanence où le flux l’emporte sur la fixité, ni s’émanciper d’un horizon de discours symbiotique ancré dans l…
Lax Pragmatism and Magisterial Kant
This paper develops a criticism of Kant’s transcendentalism, claiming that his idea of reason fails to take into account the Darwinian continuum linking higher mammals and human primates. At the same time, Kant’s ontology and epistemology fail to consider the fact that humans are the product of the contingent yet irreversible linguistic, cultural, and Intentional (written with capital “I”) configuration of their form of life. The author favors pr…
Section 1. Staking Out a Territory
Philosophical Constraints on Normativity
This essay is an exploratory reflection on a theme drawn from the work of Pierre Hadot and Juliusz Domaski regarding "philosophy as a way of life." I approach the matter from the naturalistic outlook of classic pragmatism and its own limitations. This approach stresses the possible improvement of the analysis of normativity by way of some neglected contributions regarding the nature of history and the evolution of Homo sapiens applied to the form…
Pragmatism and Historicity
This paper provides a straightforward argument that demonstrates the irreconcilability of pragmatism and transcendentalism, by way of Darwin’s failure to account for the emergence of the human self or person and the existential and historied import of the human invention and mastery of language. On the Darwinian issue, I examine the implications of Darwin’s having neglected the most important phase of the evolution of Homo sapiens – the invention…
History, Historicity and Science
Contents: Introduction, Tom Rockmore and Joseph Margolis The concepts of physics: rational contents and constructions in history, Michel Paty Theory-change and the logic of enquiry: new bearings in philosophy of science, Christopher Norris Science, history, and philosophy in Kant and Hegel, Angelica Nuzzo Historicity, social psychology and change, Rom HarrA(c) and Fathali M. Moghaddam The reality of history, David Carr The social location of scie…
Richard Rorty Contra Rorty and John Dewey
Dewey’s concept of “experience” has baffled many a reader. It is, however, assuredly the key to Dewey’s distinctive philosophical contribution. Notoriously, Rorty urges that Dewey would have been well-advised to abandon “experience: in favor of “discourse” (that is, the “linguistic method of philosophy”), which he draws largely from Davidson and Sellars. For various reasons, Rorty betrays his deep misunderstanding of Dewey’s pragmatism, the lack …
Interview with Joseph Margolis
EJPAP – This is going to be an informal conversation about the history of American philosophy, about yourself in the history of American Philosophy. Basically, we have four parts of the interview. When and how you encountered pragmatism and what interested you in it, if you think there is an American tradition of philosophy, and then about yourself in this tradition. And then your view about the prospect of the future, your prophecies. It is part…
Some Remarks on Cheryl Misak’s The American Pragmatists
This is Dewey's answer to Bertrand Russell, which Russell could never accept or which he saw no way of construing sensibly
Toward a metaphysics of culture
This paper provides a sketch of a fresh conception of the “metaphysics” of culture and a sense of its conceptual power and advantages, based on a post-Darwinian account of the artifactual, hybrid nature of a person, chiefly in terms of (what I treat as terms of art) Bildung (“external” and “internal”), Sittlichkeit (both descriptive and normative), and interpretation (diversely manifested in different sectors of inquiry). I consider the (“metaphy…
Rationality, Relativism and the Human Sciences
A Philosophical Bestiary
The paper notices that different readings have been provided as for the connections between Wittgenstein and pragmatism, such as for example H. Putnam’s picture as opposed to R. Rorty’s description that packages Wittgenstein and Dewey together as ‘postmodern’ pragmatists. Joseph Margolis tries to broaden the discussion by including an examination of Wilfrid Sellars, Gottlob Frege, Robert Brandom, and Huw Price. His aim it to review the newer chal…
Replies
My general impression, reading my commentators reading Pragmatism Ascendent, is that, however generous and patient they may be, they would like to have a clear statement of my sense of my own standing as a pragmatist vis-à-vis Kant and Hegel. Rosa Calcaterra has caught the book’s essential thrust – the last of a series on pragmatism’s second life, that were never intended to run on as a single study – that begin, opportunistically, with the rathe…
Toward a Theory of Human History
I show the sense in which the concept of history as a human science affects our theory of the natural sciences and, therefore, our theory of the unity of the physical and human sciences. The argument proceeds by way of reviewing the effect of the Darwinian contribution regarding teleologism and of post-Darwinian paleonanthropology on the transformation of the primate members of Homo sapiens into societies of historied selves. The strategy provide…
A Glimpse of Pragmatism’s Future
A Glimpse of Pragmatism's Future
Dans cet article, je mets en avant trois idées : premièrement, que l’avenir du pragmatisme dépend de sa capacité à retrouver et à expliciter les motivations premières de la critique hégélienne de Kant ; deuxièmement, que le pragmatisme hégélianise Darwin et darwinise Hegel ; troisièmement, que ce que le pragmatisme peut apporter de plus prometteur à la tradition eurocentrique en philosophie se laisse deviner grâce au traitement similaire que Peir…
The Arts and the Definition of the Human: Toward a Philosophical Anthropology
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 the philosophy of art, pictorial representation, and the nature of interpretation make no sense when separated from a "philosophical anthropology" along the lines he suggests.
Constructing a Person: A Clue to the New Unity of the Arts and Sciences
It is certainly true that no one has demonstrated the sheer falsity of claiming that whatever we count among the most distinctive things of the human world (persons, surely) or that whatever are rightly included among the most salient anthropocentric properties ascribed such things (a capacity for speech and self-reference, for productive and self-transformative agency, and for avowing beliefs, intentions, feelings and the like) are reducible in …
Tensions Regarding Epistemic Concepts
Tensions Regarding Epistemic Concepts The paper argues that there is no logic of scientific discovery, but there is an inference-like pattern that we can model as a "logic," retrospectively, once a discovery has been successfully made. While accepting a kind of epistemological pluralism and opportunism, the claim will be advocated that a convergent and reasonably wide-ranging normative "logic" might be constructed, one that might even work reason…
Historicity and the Politics of Predication
I begin with a kind of phenomenological reporting of the recent war between Israel and the Hezbollah in Lebanon, in order to explain the meaning of the thesis that "historicity is predication" – meaning by that to clarify the sense in which predication is a kind of political act (for good and sufficient philosophical reasons) and how the "objective" description of an evolving war illuminates such a philosophical reading of history
Present doldrums, pleasant prospects: Philosophy early in the new century
Robert Brandom’s effort to examine the prospects of inferentialism (inspired by Wilfrid Sellars’ work) is examined in terms of the uncertainties of contemporary philosophy and Brandom’s reading of selected prominent figures in the history of philosophy. The very idea of there being anything like a set of rules governing non-deductive inference (inferentialism) is problematic; so is Brandom’s reading of the figures he has selected in order to illu…
Rethinking Peirce's Fallibilism
Peirce's fallibilism is shown to be the "linchpin" of his mature philosophy. In passing, objections regarding a seemingly serious paradox, a textual discrepancy, and the plausibility of an alternative approach to Peirce are answered. Peirce's fallibilism is indeed a puzzling thesis, particularly in that it appears to violate familiar finitist, practical, "here and now" (pragmatist) constraints. But that's precisely where Peirce's ingenuity takes …
A Companion to Pragmatism
A Reasonable Morality for Partisans and Ideologues
Moral Philosophy After 9/11
Works of Art as Physically Embodied and Culturally Emergent Entities
WORKS OF ART AS PHYSICALLY EMBODIED AND CULTURALLY EMERGENT ENTITIES Joseph Margolis Joseph Margolis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 14, Issue 3, SUMMER 1974, Pages 187–196, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/14.3.187 Published: 01 March 1974
Reasons and Persons
Rethinking Peirce's Fallibilism
Peirce's fallibilism is shown to be the "linchpin" of his mature philosophy. In passing, objections regarding a seemingly serious paradox, a textual discrepancy, and the plausibility of an alternative approach to Peirce are answered. Peirce's fallibilism is indeed a puzzling thesis, particularly in that it appears to violate familiar finitist, practical, "here and now" (pragmatist) constraints. But that's precisely where Peirce's ingenuity takes …
Farewell to Danto and Goodman
Journal Article FAREWELL TO DANTO AND GOODMAN Get access Joseph Margolis Joseph Margolis Department of Philosophy, Temple UniversityPhiladelphia, PA 19122, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 38, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 353–374, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/38.4.353 Published: 01 October 1998
The Truth About Relativism
Postscript on Modernism and Postmodernism, Both
Literature and Speech Acts
Joseph Margolis LITERATURE AND SPEECH ACTS The trivial truth that literature employs language has been fastened on regularly and repeatedly to spawn a remarkable variety of misconceptions. Most famously, in the context of aesthetics, it has led to the untenable thesis that all art is language,1 and to the more pointed claim that works of art somehow affirm propositions that may be linguistically rendered and straightforwardly judged true or false…
A closer look at Danto's account of art and perception
A closer look at Danto's account of art and perception J Margolis J Margolis Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Anderson Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 40, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 326–339, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/40.3.326 Published: 01 July 2000
Science without Unity: Reconciling the Human and Natural Sciences
Preview and Review 1. Truth and Relativism 2. Relativism and the 'Lebenswelt' Part I. Minds without Substance 3. Minds, Selves, and Persons 4. Self and World 5. Top-down and Bottom-up Strategies 6. Cognition, Representation, and Information 7. Intentionality, Institutions, and Human Nature Part II. Science without Unity 8. Science as a Human Undertaking 9. The Structures of Functional Properties 10. Emergence and the Unity of Science 11. Context,…
Prospects for an Extensionalist Psychology of Action
Puccetti on Brains, Minds, and Persons
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Reductionism and Ontological Aspects of Consciousness
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Criticism; A Critical Introduction
Describing and Interpreting Works of Art
Notes on the Logic of Simile, Metaphor and Analogy
THE DISCUSSION of simile, metaphor, and analogy suffers from a number of well-worn clich6s and misleading generalizations. One usually hears that metaphors may be converted into similes and similes into metaphors; this is not always so. Similes are grouped together whether open or closed, though these may behave in quite different ways. Analogies are frequently defined as extensive closed similes, but the fact is that not all analogies are simile…
Foucault's problematic
Texts
The Novelty of Marx's Theory of Praxis
The savage mind totalizes
Aesthetic Appreciation and the Imperceptible
Journal Article AESTHETIC APPRECIATION AND THE IMPERCEPTIBLE Get access Joseph Margolis Joseph Margolis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 16, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1976, Pages 305–312, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/16.4.305 Published: 01 April 1976
Entitled to assert
Notes on the Logic of Simile, Metaphor and Analogy
THE DISCUSSION of simile, metaphor, and analogy suffers from a number of well-worn clich6s and misleading generalizations. One usually hears that metaphors may be converted into similes and similes into metaphors; this is not always so. Similes are grouped together whether open or closed, though these may behave in quite different ways. Analogies are frequently defined as extensive closed similes, but the fact is that not all analogies are simile…
Kafka vs. Eudaimonia and Duty
Difficulties in T. D. Weldon's Political Philosophy
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The demand for a justification of induction
Proposals on the Logic of Aesthetic Judgements
Journal Article Proposals on the Logic of Aesthetic Judgements Get access Joseph Margolis Joseph Margolis University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 9, Issue 36, July 1959, Pages 208–216, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216915 Published: 01 July 1959
The Language of Value
Describing and Interpreting Works of Art
Fourteen Points on the Senses and Their Objects
Statements about the Past and Future
The problem of other minds
Individuals and the Ways of Philosophy
Individuals and the Ways of Philosophy Get access Joseph Margolis Joseph Margolis University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 50, January 1963, Pages 33–38, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217004 Published: 01 January 1963
Lying is Wrong" and "Lying is not Always Wrong
Other Minds
I May, at a gathering, notice that Peter is sitting very stiffly in his chair. I say to myself, “Perhaps he has a pain. Yes, I think he has some sort of pain.” I have inferred a feeling of some sort from bodily behavior. It is not an impossible thing to do, to infer sometimes a feeling from bodily behavior. But it is a puzzling thing to do, at least in a philosophieal sense. Because we ordinarily hold that we cannot “observe” the feelings of anot…
L'Esthetique Contemporaine; Une Enquete
Certainty About Sensations
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Criticism; A Critical Introduction
The Problem of Criteria of Pain
It is readily conceded that “pain” is a term in a public language. But the concession leads us at once to speak of a criterion or criteria for its proper ascription; and the concept of a criterion of pain is a particularly difficult concept to lay bare. The issue has its classic source in Wittgenstein, where it extends far beyond the boundaries of mental entities. It is hard to say what Wittgenstein's view actually is regarding criteria; and it m…
Objectivism and Interactionism
The views of linguistic analysts and objectivists are explored with regard to the question of interactionism. It is argued that the admission of a logical difference between explanation by cause and explanation by motive cannot disqualify causal explanations of human action, cannot be construed as challenging the competence of science, and cannot count against interactionism. It is also argued that objectivist programs for eliminating mentalistic…
The Language of Art and Art Criticism: Analytic Questions in Aesthetics
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Language of Art and Art Criticism : Analytic questions in aesthetics. By Joseph Margolis (Detroit : Wayne State University Press for the University of Cincinnati. 1965. Pp. 201. Price $9.00). H. E. Matthews H. E. Matthews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 65, October 1966, Pages 422–423, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218550 …
Psychotherapy & Morality: A Study of Two Concepts
Two Concepts. By Joseph mARGOLIS, PhD. Price, $1.95. Pp 174. Random House, iNC., 457 Madison Ave, New York 10022, 1966. This book renders a special kind of SERVice to the psychotherapeutic enterprise. One of its chief virtues lies in the clarity with which it reveals how psychotherapeutic models are embedded in the SUBSTRUCture of society and culture. The author, an analytical philosopher, makes his contribution through a logical analysis of the …
Value judgments and value predicates
Entitled to assert
Ayer on Privacy
Esse est percipi once again
The proposition Esseest percipi plays an instructively ambiguous role in Berkeley's philosophy—as well as in the history of the theory of knowledge in general. It has, for instance, been construed as a false synthetic proposition by G. E. Moore and as a convention regarding sense-data by A. J. Ayer. And it is of course incompatible with the admission of material objects existing unperceived. I cannot myself see that Berkeley's account of the form…
“Directly Evident”
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