John Dewey and the Experimental Spirit in Philosophy.

What, After All, Is the Work of Culture?

“…I find it difficult to know what to make of Margolis, above all, because his thought is so complex, subtle, and indeed original. Not unlike Alasdair MacIntyre, with whom he might even more profitably engage, Margolis often both suffers from “over‐numerous intentions” and , for this very reason, proves to be as exhilarating and suggestive as any Anglophone philosopher in the closing decades of the twentieth century and the opening ones of the twenty‐first (MacIntyre 2002, xxi).Almost always, there is simply a lot going on in one of his texts: he is trying, after all, to accomplish a variety of objectives in a given text. He typically carries it off with remarkable finesse and in a truly “beautiful” manner.…”

“…The occasion when Smith suggested this was a series of lectures at Yale commemorating the centennial of John Dewey's birth. Charles W. Hendel, Nathaniel M. Lawrence, and Richard J. Bernstein joined Smith on this occasion, and the volume of four essays, edited byHendel (1959), is still worthy of our attention.…”