Marx W. Wartofsky

{{short description|American philosopher}}

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| birth_date = 1928

| birth_place = United States

| death_date = March {{death year and age|1997|1928}}

| death_place = Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

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| nationality = American

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| era = Contemporary philosophy

| region = Western philosophy

| school_tradition = Continental philosophy

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| main_interests = Epistemology

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Marx W. Wartofsky (1928–1997) was an American philosopher, specialising in historical epistemology. He was a professor of philosophy at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the editor of The Philosophical Forum.{{cite web|title=Marx Wartofsky, 68, Philosophy Professor|date=March 10, 1997|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/10/arts/marx-wartofsky-68-philosophy-professor.html|work=The New York Times}} With Robert S. Cohen, he co-founded the Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science, in 1960.

His works include Feuerbach (Cambridge University Press, 1977), a philosophical and historical critique of German philosopher and moralist Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach; Conceptual Foundations of Scientific Thought (Macmillan, 1968) and Models: Representation and Scientific Understanding (1979), inquiries into the meaning of scientific models and metaphors.[https://www.jstor.org/pss/2184965 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 88, No. 3 (Jul., 1979), pp. 471-476]