Joseph Margolis, holds the Laura H. Carnell chair of Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department of Temple University in Philadelphia. A leading figure in American Pragmatism, he has developed a third original alternative between analytic philosophy and the continental tradition, focused on a form of robust relativism, realistic constructivism, and a philosophy of the cultural world strictly connected with the idea of the artifactuality of persons. He has published a long series of papers and more than 30 books.