ABSTRACT
The distinctiveness and originality of Lewis’s conceptual pragmatism lie in the pragmatic conception of the a priori and the categories which is the positive complement to the diagnosis according to which “traditional conceptions of the a priori have proved untenable” and have henceforth become obsolete. Whether or not Lewis succumbs to the version of the myth of the given just described, the fact remains that his Kantianism leads him to reject a different version of the myth of the given. Accordingly, any contemporary reader of Lewis’s masterpiece, Mindand the World Order would be inclined to consider his conceptual pragmatism as a baseless and outdated philosophical framework. The dismissal of the aspect of the rationalist legacy paves the way for a pragmatic variety of pluralism whose two main characteristics are: the acknowledgment of the existence and conceivability of alternative a priori and categorial frameworks; the claim that “the selection of a categorial system or framework for is pragmatically determined”.
