This critical reader covers Joseph Margoliss controversial views of mind truth science and reality along with his revolutionary theories about culture art language personhood and morality.Pragmatisms revival since 1980 can be credited to several thinkers among them the longtime professor of philosophy at Temple University Joseph Margolis. The Critical Margolis collects within one volume more than a dozen of his essential writings allowing readers to become familiar with his important contributions to core areas of philosophy where he has controversially challenged scientistic analytic and continental traditions. During a period when sharp divides animate intellectual debatesrealism or idealism matter or mind causality or freedom machines or persons facts or values cognition or emotion and the likeMargolis dissolves false dichotomies and reconstructs philosophy itself.