 Radical empiricism gives answers to questions about the limits of science, the nature of meaning and value and the workability of reductionism.These questions feature prominently in current debates about the relationship between religion and science, where it is often assumed—most pragmatists would disagree—that science degrades everything that is meaningful into "merely" physical phenomena.Both John Dewey in "Experience and Nature" (1929) and half a century later Richard Rorty in his "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" (1979) argued that much of the debate about the relation of the mind to the body results from conceptual confusions.