Is Joseph Margolis a member of the often neglected school of “Columbia naturalism”? Columbia naturalism promoted a distinctive non-reductive nationalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Inspired by pragmatism, and Dewey in particular, its members included Ernest Nagel, John Herman Randall, Joseph Blau, Herbert Schneider, and Justus Buchler. Margolis received his degree from Columbia in 1953. Neither his early work in aesthetics nor his mature attempt to justify pragmatic themes in an uncompromising dialogue with analytic and continental philosophy seems particularly “Columbian.” Neither does his radical endorsement of a kind of relativism. However, Margolis is after all some kind of naturalist. Furthermore, the Columbians shared a forgotten doctrine, called “objective relativism.” If the combination of naturalism and relativism is a Columbian fruit, Margolis may have has fallen closer to the tree than first appears.

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Margolis 饰 哥伦比亚博物学家

Joseph Margolis 是经常被忽视的“哥伦比亚自然主义”学派的成员吗？哥伦比亚自然主义在 20 世纪中叶的美国提倡了一种独特的非还原性民族主义。受实用主义，尤其是杜威的启发，其成员包括欧内斯特·内格尔、约翰·赫尔曼·兰德尔、约瑟夫·布劳、赫伯特·施奈德和贾斯图斯·布赫勒。Margolis 于 1953 年从哥伦比亚大学获得学位。无论是他早期的美学工作，还是他在与分析哲学和大陆哲学的不妥协对话中为实用主题辩护的成熟尝试，似乎都特别“哥伦比亚”。他对某种相对主义的激进支持也没有。然而，马戈利斯毕竟是某种博物学家。此外，哥伦比亚人分享了一个被遗忘的学说，称为“客观相对主义”。