 Dewey’s take on culture also shows the moderate character of his aesthetic naturalism. He does not consider culture an illusory or in some other way irreal phenomenon, something that should be explained away by reducing it to natural reality. Dewey even finds it unfortunate how often the term “naturalism” has been wrongly thought “to signify a disregard of all values that cannot be reduced to the physical and animal” (AE: 156). In contrast, Dewey believes that humans are both natural and cultural creatures through and through and that the real challenge is to investigate how these two ineliminable sides of human life, nature and culture, are intertwined. Dewey, in fact, became so interested in this issue that he even had plans of naming his late philosophy “cultural naturalism” (Alexander 2013).