Abstract
Inherent in the cultural naturalism of John Dewey is a deep connection between experience and nature. Experience is the humanly possible interplay with nature, “a means of penetrating continually further into the heart of nature”. Nature is the bedrock of experience, captured in a concept that no longer refers to a “block universe” —an essentially given, firmly established order of things, beings, and species—but rather “a realm of existence, composed of events”, temporally and spatially situated appearances which can be given a meaning, evolving as the realization of natural potentials within the framework of evolutionary interplay. Every existence is therefore an event—nature, the...