Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy
M.A., Columbia University, 1950
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1953
Professor Margolis’s main interests are in the philosophy of the human sciences, the theory of knowledge and interpretation, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, American philosophy, and pragmatism.
Professor Margolis is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Past-President of the American Society for Aesthetics, Honorary President and Lifetime Member of the International Association of Aesthetics. He has lectured widely in the United States and abroad. He serves on the editorial board of many philosophical journals and is completing the third volume in a trilogy of books on contemporary American philosophy. Professor Margolis is currently participating in the Department’s Vietnamese Philosophy Exchange.
Selected Bibliography
• Moral Philosophy after 9/11 (Pennsylvania State University Pres, 2004).
• The Unraveling of Scientism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century (Cornell University Press, 2003).
• Reinventing Pragmatism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century (Cornell University Press, 2002).
• Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001)
• What, After All is a Work of Art?: Lectures in the Philosophy of Art (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999).
• “Recovering the Human Sciences,” Idealistic Studies, (2002), pp. 1-15.
Recent Courses
• Problems in Aesthetics
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Language
• American Thinkers
Contact Information
Office: 727 Anderson Hall
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
Anderson Hall
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: (215) 204-8594
E-mail: josephmargolis455@hotmail.com or serge@temple.edu