Prologue 1. Toward a Metaphysics of Culture 2. Constructing a Person: A Clue to the New Unity of the Arts and Sciences 3. Charles Peirce’s Abductive Turn 4. The Nature of Normativity
Biography
Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, USA. He has taught in the United States, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, and South Africa for more than sixty-five years. His most recent work, Pragmatism Ascendent: A Yard of Narrative, A Touch of Prophecy, was published in 2012.
"Stimulating, provocative, and magisterial, Margolis’ intrepid study sketches how 21st century philosophers can develop what he terms pragmatism’s best prospects. By depicting human beings not as a natural kind but as a 'second-natured, artifactual transform' Margolis presses not only pragmatism but philosophy itself toward a more productive arena, one where biology and enlanguaged culture intersect." – David L. Hildebrand, University of Colorado Denver
