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Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice

Essays for Marx Wartofsky

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  • © 1994

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  1. Carol C. Gould

    1. Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

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  2. Robert S. Cohen

    1. Boston University, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 154)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  4. Philosophy and Its History

    1. Hegel and the Doctrine of Expressivism

      • Andrew Buchwalter
      Pages 163-183

    2. Translating Feuerbach

      • Peter Caws
      Pages 185-193

    3. Is The Enlightenment Over?

      • William James Earle
      Pages 195-203

    4. Realism

      • Paul Feyerabend
      Pages 205-222

    5. An Anatomy of Wittgenstein’s Picture Theory

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 223-256

    6. Rationality and Commitment

      • Isaac Levi
      Pages 257-275

    7. The Theses on Feuerbach: A Road not Taken

      • Alasdair MacIntyre
      Pages 277-290

    8. Donald Davidson’s Philosophical Strategies

      • Joseph Margolis
      Pages 291-322

    9. Time and Conscious Experience

      • Joëlle Proust
      Pages 323-341

    10. Ten Philosophical Poems

      • Abner Shimony
      Pages 343-348
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The essays collected here in honor of Marx Wartofsky's sixty-fifth birthday are a celebration of his rich contribution to philosophy over the past four decades and a testimony to the wide influence he has had on thinkers with quite various approaches of their own. His diverse philosophical interests and main themes have ranged from constructivism and realism in the philosophy of science to practices of representation and the creation of artifacts in aesthetics; and from the development of human cognition and the historicity of modes of knowing to the construction of norms in the context of concrete social critique. Or again, in the history of philosophy, his work spans historical approaches to Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx, as well as contemporary implications of their work; and in applied philosophy, problems of education, medicine, and new technologies. Marx's philosophical theorizing moves from the highest levels of abstraction to the most concrete concern with the everyday and with contemporary social and political reality. And perhaps most notably, it is acutely sensitive to the importance of historical development and social practice. As a student of John Herman Randall, Jr. and Ernest Nagel at Columbia, Marx developed an exemplary background in both the history of philosophy and systematic philosophy and subsequently combined this with a wide acquaintance with analytic philosophy. He is at once aware of the requirements of system and of the need for rigorous and careful detailed argument.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

    Carol C. Gould

  • Boston University, USA

    Robert S. Cohen

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