Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. His most recent publications include Re-inventing Pragmatism (2002), The Unraveling fo Scientism (2003), Moral Philosophy after 9/11 (2004) and Introduction to Philosophical Problems (2006).
In this remarkable book, Joseph Margolis, one of
Twenty years after it was first published to great acclaim, Margolis has updated Pragmatism Without Foundations in the light of his most recent work and the development of pragmatism in the intellectual world. This second edition includes an updated preface and a brand new epilogue addressing these developments and their implications for his earlier work.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue: A sense of the issue
Introduction
Part One: The Defense and Application of Relativism
1. The nature and strategies of relativism
2. Historicism and universalism
3. Objectivism and relativism
4. Rationality and realism
5. Realism and relativism
Part Two: Foundations and the recovery of pragmatism
6. The legitimation of realism
7. Pragmatism without foundations
8. A sense of rapprochement between Analytic and Continental European philosophy
9. Cognitive issues in the realist-idealist dispute
10. Skepticism, foundationalism, and pragmatism
11. Scientific realism as a transcendental issue
Epilogue
Index