 Against both competitors, pragmatists claim the advantage of being able to neatly tether knowledge to successful inquiry. With successful inquiry understood as the controlled and deliberate transformation of one’s surroundings, Dewey and Hook were able to draw an explicit tie between their pragmatist theory of knowledge and at least one instance of highly impactful science, namely Darwinian biology. That is, they saw it as an attractive feature of their conception of knowledge that it was friendly to a conception of the human mind as an evolved instrument for improved prediction and control of the environment.