(b) dewey never really intended his theory of experience to be a kind of epistemological foundationalism, but rather wanted to celebrate the richness and value of immediate experience, including "the immediate dimension of somatic experience" and to emphasize the positive role such experience can play in improving the quality of human life. (the inspiration of body theorist-therapist f. m. alexander is important here). although he argues that dewey's theory was ultimately spoiled by a kind of foundationalism (not the one rorty accuses dewey of but rather one asserting that the specific quality of immediate experience is the glue that makes coherent thought possible),