Toward a Metaphysics of Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367361525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 218 str.

Joseph Margolis

Opis

Toward a Metaphysics of Culture offers a heterodox account of the human person and its enlanguaged culture as a natural but artifactual transform of the human primate and the physical world, in terms of its invention and mastery of language and of the emergent abilities that that makes possible.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.