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This chapter provides an answer to the questionQuestions: Who picked up Dewey’s pragmatist mantle in the second half of the twentieth century? The answer provided is W. V. O. Quine. Despite insistences to the contrary, Quine’s commitment to pragmatismPragmatism can be understood by properly appreciating his views on naturalismNaturalism, holismHolism and underdeterminationUnderdetermination, behavioral semanticsSemantics, radical untranslatability, ontological commitment, relativism, truthTruths, and realismRealism. Here, it is shown that Quine consciously developed a pragmatic alternative to a foundationalist empiricism that he repeatedly renounced.

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Quine, Dewey, and the Pragmatist Tradition in American Philosophy of Science

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    2025年

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  • Don Howard

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This chapter provides an answer to the questionQuestions: Who picked up Dewey’s pragmatist mantle in the second half of the twentieth century? The answer provided is W. V. O. Quine. Despite insistences to the contrary, Quine’s commitment to pragmatismPragmatism can be understood by properly appreciating his views on naturalismNaturalism, holismHolism and underdeterminationUnderdetermination, behavioral semanticsSemantics, radical untranslatability, ontological commitment, relativism, truthTruths, and realismRealism. Here, it is shown that Quine consciously developed a pragmatic alternative to a foundationalist empiricism that he repeatedly renounced.