Toward a Metaphysics of Culture / Edition 1

Toward a Metaphysics of Culture / Edition 1

by Joseph Margolis
ISBN-10:
0367361523
ISBN-13:
9780367361525
Pub. Date:
09/05/2019
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0367361523
ISBN-13:
9780367361525
Pub. Date:
09/05/2019
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Toward a Metaphysics of Culture / Edition 1

Toward a Metaphysics of Culture / Edition 1

by Joseph Margolis
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Overview

Toward a Metaphysics of Culture provides an initial, minimal, and original analysis of the concept of uniquely enlanguaged cultures of the human world and of the distinctive metaphysical features of whatever belongs to the things of that world: preeminently, persons, language, actions, artworks, products, history, practices, institutions, and norms. Emphasis is placed on the artifactual and hybrid nature of persons, naturalistic and post-Darwinian evolutionary considerations, and the bearing of the account on a range of disputed inquiries largely centered on the relationship between physical nature and human culture and between the natural and human sciences. The schema offered lays a foundation for a closer analysis of the human mind, cognition, interpretation, nomologicality, normativity, intentionality, realism, and related matters. The central thesis advances the heterodox notion, congruent with post-Darwinian studies in paleoanthropology, that the human person is a natural artifact, a functional transform of the primate members of Homo sapiens, by way of a complexly intertwined biological and encultured evolution, primarily dependent on the invention, transmission, and mastery of true language and the novel hybrid abilities that that makes possible. The emergence of persons is taken to be the obverse side of the mastery of language itself.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367361525
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/05/2019
Series: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface viii

Prologue ix

1 Toward a Metaphysics of Culture 1

2 Constructing a Person: A Clue to the New Unity of the Arts and Sciences 37

3 Charles Peirce's Abductive Turn 98

4 The Nature of Normativity 146

Index 213

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