ABSTRACT
The present essay is titled “The Fact/Value Dichotomy and the Future of Philosophy.” I did not entitle it “The Fact/Value Dichotomy and the Future of Pragmatism” because I do not want to revive pragmatism as a movement. I don’t believe in “movements” in philosophy, except as temporary expedients for bringing new ideas to the attention of the philosophical public. But there are ideas in classical pragmatism that I think deserve to be part of “the future of philosophy.” The rejection of the claim that there is an absolute dichotomy between descriptions of facts and value judgments is perhaps the most important idea of Deweyan pragmatism that I hope philosophers will come to accept in the future.
