Joseph Margolis | |
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Born | Newark, New Jersey, U.S. | May 16, 1924
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,[1] second-natured selves[2] |
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.