ABSTRACT
This chapter utilizes the vision offered by Classical American Pragmatism as a conceptual framework for rethinking science and the issues raised by the scientific worldview. Science has been a major contributor to the separation of humans from each other and in particular to the separation of humans from nature. The philosophy of Pragmatism arose in part as a reaction to the modern worldview regarding the nature of science and the scientific object. Pragmatism's concern with the method of science is not just with the application of knowledge but with the way knowledge is obtained. Theory and practical activity are interrelated, and knowledge is not contemplative or otherworldly as opposed to a lesser realm of practice. Each of the sciences is a different approach to its own part of the world, it deals with different theories, and entirely new laws and concepts are necessary to explain the phenomena it is interested in understanding.
