Joseph Margolis

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Joseph Zalman Margolis is an American philosopher. A radical historicist, he has published many books critical of the central assumptions of Western philosophy, and has elaborated a robust form of relativism.

Published Works

• Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly
• Reinventing Pragmatism
• The Autographic Nature of the Dance
• Persons and Minds
• Subcellular site of acetaldehyde oxidation in rat liver
• The Unraveling of Scientism
• WORKS OF ART AS PHYSICALLY EMBODIED AND CULTURALLY EMERGENT ENTITIES
• Stereospecificity of the Oxidation of Ethanol by Catalase
• Culture and Cultural Entities
• Pragmatism's Advantage
Texts
Mental ascriptions and mental unity: Molar subjects, brains, and homunculi
Postscript on Modernism and Postmodernism, Both
ω-Oxidation of fatty acids and the acetylation of p-aminobenzoic acid
Robust Relativism
Notes on the Logic of Simile, Metaphor and Analogy
Toward a metaphysics of culture
The locus of coherence
Puccetti on Brains, Minds, and Persons
The Trouble with Homunculus Theories
Literature and Speech Acts
Pragmatism Ascendent
IV.—THE IDENTITY OF A WORK OF ART
The Novelty of Marx's Theory of Praxis
Toward a Metaphysics of Culture
The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism
Relativism, History and Objectivity in the Human Studies
The Arts and the Definition of the Human
Puzzles Regarding Explanation by Reasons and Explanation by Causes
The Ontological Peculiarity of Works of Art
Introduction: Pragmatism, Retrospective, and Prospective
Wittgenstein’s “Forms of Life”: A Cultural Template for Psychology
Donald Davidson’s Philosophical Strategies
Applying Moral Theory to the Retarded
The problem of justified belief
Beyond postmodernism: Logic as rhetoric
Pragmatism’s Advantage
Moral Cognitivism
AESTHETIC APPRECIATION AND THE IMPERCEPTIBLE
VII.—THE PERILS OF PHYSICALISM
Relativism and Interpretive Objectivity
The Logic and Structures of Fictional Narrative
Plain Talk about Interpretation on a Relativistic Model
Rethinking Peirce's Fallibilism
Richard Rorty Contra Rorty and John Dewey
The First Pragmatists
Explicating Actions
Pragmatism, Praxis, and the Technological
Goethe and Psychoanalysis
The Concept of Mental Illness: A Philosophical Examination
The use and syntax of value judgments
Logical, epistemic, and historical features of value judgments
Mr. Weitz and the definition of art
Minds, selves, and persons
Behaviorism and alien languages
Correction to: On Harman’s theory of knowledge
Philosophy in the “new” rhetoric, rhetoric in the “new” philosophy
Classification and the concept of goodness
Rule-utiliarianism
In defense of relativism
Foucault's problematic
Uncertain musings about the state of the world and religion’s contribution
Abortion
The Nature and Strategies of Relativism
Introduction: The Philosophy of Interpretation
Richard Rorty: Philosophy by Other Means
The Ontological Peculiarity of Works of Art
Terrorism and the New Forms of War
Reductionism and Ontological Aspects of Consciousness
Countering Physicalistic Reduction
Prospects for an Extensionalist Psychology of Action
Indubitability, Self-Intimating States, and Logically Privileged Access
Kafka vs. Eudaimonia and Duty
On Value Theory, By Way of the Commonplace
Describing and Interpreting Works of Art
"Lying is Wrong" and "Lying is not Always Wrong"
Persons and Minds: The Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism.
Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis
Schleiermacher among the Theorists of Language and Interpretation
Art as Language
Historicism, Universalism, and the Threat of Relativism
Intentionality, Institutions, and Human Nature
Pour réhabiliter la notion d’incorporation des entités culturelles : réponse à Dale Jacquette
Pluralism, Relativism, and Historicism
Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences
The Technological Self
Concepts of Disease and Sexuality
Pragmatism, Transcendental Arguments, and the Technological
?Moral? and ?rational?
Entitled to assert
The savage mind totalizes
Donnellan on definite descriptions
Contesting John Searle’s Social Ontology: Institutions and Background
Mill's utilitarianism again
Actions and ways of failing
Intimations of Moral Philosophy, By Way of War and Terrorism
Objectivism and Interactionism
Professor Pepper on Value Theory
X—Objectivism and Relativism
NUMERICAL IDENTITY AND REFERENCE IN THE ARTS
CRITICS AND LITERATURE
ON DISPUTES ABOUT THE ONTOLOGICAL STATUS OF A WORK OF ART
“I EXIST”
Remembering
Aesthetic Perception
Robust Relativism
The Autographic Nature of The Dance
THE MEANING OF A WORD
RATIONALITY AND WEAKNESS OF WILL
Placing Artworks-Placing Ourselves
ARGUMENTS WITH INTENSIONAL AND EXTENSIONAL FEATURES
REALISM'S SUPERIORITY OVER INSTRUMENTALISM AND IDEALISM: A DEFECTIVE ARGUMENT
Venturing Beyond Analytic Philosophy's “Best” Arguments to the Implied Inadequacies of Its Metaphilosophical Intuitions
The Future of Pragmatism’s Second Life
A “Pragmatist” among Disputed Pragmatists: Robert Brandom’s Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism
Pragmatism’s Future: A Touch of Prophecy
Objectivity as a Problem: An Attempt at an Overview
The Options of Contemporary Ethical Theory
"That all Men are Created Equal"
Statements about the Past and Future
Parallels in Moral and Aesthetic Discourse
Aesthetics. Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism
Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse
Semiotics of Poetry
What Is When? When Is What? Two Questions for Nelson Goodman
Reinterpreting Interpretation
Interview with Joseph Margolis
Replies
The Worlds of Art and the World
Recovering the Human Sciences
Materialism by Less than Adequate Means
The Problems of Similarity
Canons for Objectivist Interpretation
On the Ontology of Persons
The Rights of Man
The Philosophy of the Visual Arts: Perceiving Paintings
Late froms of Psychologism and Antipsychologism
Explicating Actions: Reply to Commentaries
Constitutionalism: Principle and Policy
The Trouble with Schizophrenia
Information, Künstliche Intelligenz und das Praxeologische
Pragmatismus, transzendentale Argumente und die Technik
Schlick and Carnap on the Problem of Psychology
Objectivity: False Leads from T. S. Kuhn on the Role of the Aesthetic in the Sciences
History, Nature, and Technology
Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and the Psychological Sciences
Rationality and Realism
Information, Artificial Intelligence, and the Praxical
Triage and Critical Care
The Problem of Reading, Phenomenologically or Otherwise
The Psychiatric Patient-Physician Relationship
General Introduction
Propositional Content and the Beliefs of Animals
Mental States and Sentience
Psychophysical Interaction
The nature and Identity of Cultural Entities
Action and Ideology
The Theory of Persons Sketched
The Relation of Mind and Body
The Identity Theory
Radical Materialism
Materialism Without Identity
Problems Regarding Persons
Language Acquisition. I: Rationalists vs. Empiricists
Language Acquisition. II: First and Second Languages and the Theory of Thought and Perception
Persons and Psychosurgery
The Maning of Thomas Kuhn’s “Different Worlds”
The Premature Refutation of Relativism
Scientific Methods and Feyerabend’s Advocacy of Anarchism
Nature, Culture, and Persons
The Concept of Consciousness
Animal and Human Minds
Action and Causality
Puzzles abount the Causal Explanation of Human Actions
Cognitivism and the Problem of Explaining Human Intelligence
Wittgenstein and Natural Languages: an Alternative to Rationalist and Empiricist Theories
Political Morality under Radical Conditions
Patrick Heelan’s Interpretation of van Gogh’s “Bedroom at Arles”
Monistic and Dualistic Canons for the Natural and Human Sciences
Nature, culture, and persons
Book reviews
Conceptual aspects of a patients' bill of rights
The problem of other minds
The demand for a justification of induction
Feedback
Books A review-essay
Commentary
The middle ground in social psychology
Capital punishment
Reflections on intentionality
The Problem of Criteria of Pain
Esse est percipi once again
Reasons and Causes
Other Minds
Freedom and the Will. Edited by D. F. Pears. London & Toronto, Macmillan Co., 1963. Pp. v, 136. $2.75.
After-Images and Pains
Religion and Reason
A Reasonable Morality for Partisans and Ideologues
Psychotherapy vs. morality.
Contesting John Searle’s Social Ontology
Biology and Culture
First- and Second-Language Acquisition and the Theory of Thought and Perception
The analysis of ‘ought’
34. Yeats’ Leda and the Swan
II. Taylor on the reduction of teleological laws
I. Danto on basic actions
Alternative Strategies for the Analysis of Knowledge
The Planets are Nine in Number
Countertheses: Illness and medical values
Three Tests for Democracy by David Braybrooke
Relativism revisited and revived: Replies to critics
Reply to a Reaction: Second Remarks on Brodbeck's Objectivism
Scientific Realism, Ontology, and the Sensory Modes
Logic and Art. Essays in Honor of Nelson Goodman. Richard Rudner , Israel Scheffler
Human Acts and Moral Judgments
G. E. Moore and Intuitionism
MEYER SCHAPIRO AND THE SCIENCE OF ART HISTORY
PROSPECTS REGARDING THE SCIENCE OF CRITICISM
REJOINDER TO W. D. L. SCOBIE ON “THE IDENTITY OF A WORK OF ART”
ONTOLOGY AND ‘RED’ AND ‘SOLUBLE’
“EXIST” AGAIN
Pragmatist Innovations, Actual and Proposed
Rationality and Weakness of Will
Creativity, Expression, and Value Once Again
Sibley on Aesthetic Perception
Psychological and Logical Distinctions Respecting Fiction
A Strategy for A Philosophy of Art
Michel Foucault, This Is Not A Pipe
Schleiermacher Among The Theorists of Language and Interpretation
Ontology Down and Out in Art and Science
Reinterpreting Interpretation
Richard Wollheim, Painting as an Art
Reconciling Analytic and Feminist Philosophy and Aesthetics
Hoesterey, Ingeborg, Ed. Zeitgeist in Babel: The Postmodernist Controversy: Ferguson, Russell, William Olander, Marcia Tucker, and Karen Fiss, Eds. Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture
Symposium: Relativism and Interpretation Plain Talk About Interpretation on A Relativistic Model
FACTS AND VALUES AND SCIENCES OF VALUE
REVIEWS
Alvin I. Goldman, A Theory of Human Action.
ON EXPLANATION IN THE BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES
OPEN CONCEPTS
Introduction
REPLIES: ETHICS, METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY
THE TROUBLE WITH TERROR
Cognitive Issues in the Realist-Idealist Dispute
The Methodological and Metaphysical Peculiarities of the Human Sciences
The "Nature" of Interpretable Things
Fourteen Points on the Senses and Their Objects
“Directly Evident”
The stubborn opacity of belief contexts
THE AXIOM OF EXISTENCE: REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM
PERSONS: NOTES ON THEIR NATURE, IDENTITY, AND RATIONALITY
Pragmatism Regained
Placing Artworks—Placing Ourselves
Rationality and Weakness of Will
Historicity and the Politics of Predication
Toward a Theory of Human History
Pragmatism and Historicity
Reference as Relational: Pro and Contra
KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF; FACTS AND PROPOSITIONS
FICTION AND EXISTENCE
THINKING ABOUT THINKING
REPLY TO SONJA KREIDL-RINOFNER
Preparations for a Theory of Interpretation
Pragmatism’s New Options
Hilary Putnam and the Promise of Pluralism
Wittgenstein’s Question and the Ubiquity of Cultural Space
Present doldrums, pleasant prospects
Mastering a Natural Language: Rationalists Versus Empiricists
Back to the Drawing Board
<i>Antiques: The History of an Idea</i> (review)
Philosophical Constraints on Normativity
2 ‘‘One and Only One Correct Interpretation’’
Building, Thinking, and Politics: Mies, Heidegger, and the Nazis
Recent Currents in Aesthetics of Relevance to Contemporary Visual Artists
Art and Philosophy: Conceptual Issues in Aesthetics
Philosophy Looks at the Arts: Contemporary Readings in Aesthetics
The Threads of Literary Theory
Difficulties in T. D. Weldon's Political Philosophy
Feeling and Form; a Theory of Art Developed from Philosphy in a New Key.
Some Famous Ghosts in Ethical Theory
In the Name of Human Finitude: An Examination of Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism and Political Problems
Creation and Discovery; Essays in Criticism and Aesthetics.
The Logic of Moral Discourse.
Santayana and the Sense of Beauty.
Art and Analysis; an Essay toward a Theory in Aesthetics.
The Heaven of Invention.
Moral Appreciation
Moral Utterances and Imperatives
Existential Import and Perceptual Judgments
Perception, Inference, and Mediation
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Criticism; A Critical Introduction.
L'Esthetique Contemporaine; Une Enquete.
The Language of Value.
Ayer on Privacy
Certainty About Sensations
Psychotherapy & Morality: A Study of Two Concepts.
Transitive and Intransitive Modes of Sentience
Persons and Minds.
Reasons and Persons.
The Reasonableness of Relativism
Science without Unity: Reconciling the Human and Natural Sciences.
The Truth About Relativism.
Nicholas Rescher's Metaphilosophical Inquiries
Heidegger and Nazism.
Psychotherapy and Morality: A Study of Two Concepts.
Values and Conduct.
Negativities: The Limits of Life.
Art and Philosophy: Conceptual Issues in Aesthetics.
Interpretation; An Essay in the Philosophy of Literary Criticism.
Persons and Minds.
Texts without Referents: Reconciling Science and Narrative.
Pragmatism Without Foundations: Reconciling Realism and Relativism.
Proposals on the Logic of Aesthetic Judgements
Individuals and the Ways of Philosophy
Values and Conduct.
Fact and Existence.
The Language of Art and Art Criticism: Analytic Questions in Aesthetics.
Persons and Minds.
Comparing Dummett's and Putnam's Realisms
The Flux of History and the Flux of Science.
Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory: Appropriating Historical Traditions.
Report on Analysis Problem no. 14
Aesthetics: An Introduction
Puzzles regarding the Cultural Link between Artworks and Criticism
The Act of Interpretation: A Critique of Literary Reason
Philosophy Looks at the Arts
Art and Philosophy: Conceptual Issues in Aesthetics
Deconstruction: A Cautionary Tale
Some Remarks on Sparshott on the Dance
The Role of the Segregationist
Philosophy Looks at the Arts
Eras and Modes in English Poetry
Art and the Human Enterprise
Thinking and Perceiving. A Study in the Philosophy of Mind
Creativity, Expression, and Value Once Again
Letters Pro and Con
Aesthetic Perception
Psychological and Logical Distinctions Respecting Fiction
The Language of Art and Art Criticism
Sibley on Aesthetic Perception
This Is not a pipe
Art and Philosophy
Philosophy Looks at the Arts: Contemporary Readings in Aesthetics
A Strategy for a Philosophy of Art
The Critical Circle. Literature, History, and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Making Sense of Literature
Painting as an Art
Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly: The New Puzzle of the Arts and History
Ontology down and out in Art and Science
Exorcising the Dreariness of Aesthetics
Zeitgeist in Babel: The Postmodernist Controversy
Reconciling Analytic and Feminist Philosophy and Aesthetics
What, after All, Is a Work of Art?
Dewey’s Metaphysics of Existence
The Nature of Art’s Nature
Heidegger on Truth and Being
Tensions Regarding Epistemic Concepts
Foreword
The New Music of Philosophical Spheres
A Glimpse of Pragmatism's Future
L'indifférence croissante de la philosophie à l'égard de l'histoire et de la culture
Lax Pragmatism and Magisterial Kant
Some Remarks on Cheryl Misak’s The American Pragmatists
A Philosophical Bestiary
Constructing a Person
MEDIEVAL AESTHETICS
Dewey and/or Rorty
Structuralism in literary theory
Imprecision and Indeterminacy's Contribution to a Pragmatist Reconstruction of Philosophy
Uncertain musings about the state of the world and religion’s contribution
History, Historicity and Science
Obliquely about Realism
Not es Towards a Metaphysics of Mind
Construyendo una persona: una pista para la nueva unidad de las artes y las ciencias
“One and Only One Correct Interpretation”
The Relevance of the Emotions for Medicine
History and Realism under the Condition of History
Mechanical Reproduction and Cinematic Humanism
Knowledge and Belief; Facts and Propositions
Reference as Relational
On the Robust Possibilities of a Constructive Realism
Pain and Perception
The Claim of Reason
Dracula the Man
Critical Review: Crime or Disease?
Relativism vs. Pluralism and Objectivism
Back to the Future at the End of the Century
Some Ontological Policies
The Myths of Psychoanalysis
Interpretation at Risk
Prospects for a Theory of Radical History
The Problem of Revolution
Revolution and Political Agency
Two Paradoxes In Heidegger
Black and White Politics
Punishment
The Concepts of War and Peace
Freedom & Morality
Toward a Phenomenology of Painting and Literature
Philosophers in Wonderland
Section 1. Staking Out a Territory
THE HOBBESIAN TURN
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