ABSTRACT
Pragmatic Naturalists must grapple with a tension between the urge to be sweeping in their meta-philosophical critique and the wish to be relevant to the practice of the discipline. In this chapter, I consider three self-declared pragmatic naturalists, Richard Rorty, Philip Kitcher, and Huw Price, all of whom have made it their business to offer reform-inducing critiques of philosophy. With Wittgenstein as a common reference point, I consider their positions with respect to the challenges brought on by the attempt to offer radical diagnoses without sacrificing practice-directed authority. The lesson, I suggest, is that meta-philosophy is not the engine of philosophical reform. Rather, in so far as philosophy is a proper subject of reformist ambition at all, this ambition should be couched in ethical and political terms, addressing institutional forms and norms of practice.
