Which research professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology coined the term for a philosophical approach to naturalism which encourages a variety of ways to talk about the world?
Sean M. Carroll Sean Michael Carroll ( ; born October 5, 1966) is a cosmologist and physics professor specializing in dark energy and general relativity. He is a research professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific journals and magazines such as "Nature", "The New York Times", "Sky & Telescope", and "New Scientist".
Pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870. Its origins are often attributed to the philosophers William James, John Dewey, and Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce later described it in his pragmatic maxim: "Consider the practical effects of the objects of your conception. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object."