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.

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.

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