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work_we5um7e6wvexvpkr7wlouhgtem	Peter Godfrey‐Smith	Dewey on Naturalism, Realism and Science	2002	11	.pdf	application/pdf	4813	341	64	An interpretation of John Dewey's views about realism, science, and naturalistic philosophy is presented. issue of realism in metaphysics, Dewey's basic allegiance is to a view that 2. Dewey's Naturalism and Its Relation to Realism. treat these as raising separate, although related, problems in the interpretation of Dewey's philosophy. Dewey's claims about the role of thought, or mind, or knowledge in the which Dewey's philosophy of science is an unorthodox form of realism, Dewey's claim that the function of mind and knowledge is to make directed changes to goings-on in the world. kind of structure that science aims to describe, not a view about a nondescriptive role for theories or the goals of scientific work. Dewey was very far from the view that theory-choice in science must be to Reichenbach's "non-realistic" reading of his views on science, Dewey That is, when Dewey claims that science is concerned with relations,	./cache/work_we5um7e6wvexvpkr7wlouhgtem.pdf	./txt/work_we5um7e6wvexvpkr7wlouhgtem.txt