Facts and values in pragmatism

Abstract

The dichotomy of s and s is sometimes held as an established conceptual truth. Values are cut off from facts by the famous Hume’s guil lotine. Values cannot be derived from facts and do not belong to the facts found in nature. s and values form thus a hard problem for naturalism, but only for hard naturalism emphasizing the role of the theories and methods of natural science where there is no room for concepts. Soft naturalism is perfectly consistent with the concept of habit, which is a teleological notion. The outcome is that facts and values are necessarily intertwined in experience.