The Unraveling of ScientismThe Unraveling of Scientism, a companion to Joseph Margolis's Reinventing Pragmatism, follows the thread of American analytic philosophy through the second half of the twentieth century, the period of its greatest influence and activity. Margolis finds that the distinctive features of analytic philosophy were effectively altered, at about mid century, most pointedly by W. V. Quine. Surprisingly, this was a time of declining conceptual invention and