John Dewey¿s Experience and Nature (1925) is an attempt to draw the metaphysical consequences
of modern developments in the natural sciences, particularly Darwinism. Recently, Richard Rorty has
criticized Dewey¿s metaphysical stance, which he proposes to replace by a more straightforward compromise
with historicism. This paper argues that Rorty misreads the meaning of historicism, and fails to make
sense of the naturalistic attitude expressed in Dewey¿s metaphysics
