Joseph Margolis

Joseph Margolis
Joseph Margolis
	Margolis at Temple University, 2007
Born	May 16, 1924; Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	June 8, 2021 (aged 97)
Alma mater	Drew University (BA); Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Historicism; Pragmatism
Main interests	Relativism, Western philosophy, philosophy of art, history, aesthetics
Notable ideas	Culturally emergent entities, the Flux, robust relativism, second-natured selves

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Joseph Zalman Margolis (May 16, 1924 – June 8, 2021) was an American philosopher. A radical historicist, he authored many books critical of the central assumptions of Western philosophy, and elaborated a robust form of relativism.

His philosophical affinities included Protagoras, Hegel, C. S. Peirce, Dewey, Wittgenstein, W.V. Quine, and Foucault.

^ Joseph Margolis (ed.), Philosophy Looks at the Arts, Temple University Press, 1987, p. 484.
^ Joseph Margolis, Pragmatism's Advantage: American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century, Stanford University Press, 2010, p. 88.

[1] Joseph Margolis (ed.), Philosophy Looks at the Arts, Temple University Press, 1987, p. 484.

[2] Joseph Margolis, Pragmatism's Advantage: American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century, Stanford University Press, 2010, p. 88.

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Joseph Margolis
Margolis at Temple University, 2007
Born	(1924-05-16)May 16, 1924 Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	June 8, 2021(2021-06-08) (aged 97)
Alma mater	Drew University (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD)

Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Historicism Pragmatism
Main interests	Relativism, Western philosophy, philosophy of art, history, aesthetics
Notable ideas	Culturally emergent entities, the Flux, robust relativism,^[1] second-natured selves^[2]

Joseph Margolis

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