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PRAGMATISM SCIENCE AND NATURALISM GEBUNDEN

According to metaphysical naturalism science has given us overwhelming reason to see the world
as made up just of physical things. The job of philosophers is then to understand how our
concepts of non-physical things  like beliefs and values  can map onto this world. Pragmatist
philosophers take the scientific enterprise seriously  but have a critical view of metaphysical
naturalism. Classical pragmatism  which stems from the work of Charles Sanders Peirce  William
James and John Dewey  resists metaphysical naturalism by rejecting its conception of science as
too narrow. Neo-pragmatist thinkers such as Richard Rorty  Hilary Putnam  Robert Brandom and
Huw Price resist it by offering different conceptions of the relationship between language and
the world. The papers in this volume offer perspectives and reflections on the interrelations
between pragmatism and science  and the consequences these have for a naturalistic philosophy.

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