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Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God by Sami Pihlstrm

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The book is a study of pragmatism and pragmatic pluralism in the philosophy of religion. Through critical examinations of James’s, Dewey’s, and recent neopragmatists’ ideas, it argues that key issues in the field – including the debate between evidentialism and fideism, and the problem of evil – need rearticulation from a pragmatic pluralistic perspective.

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Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God by Sami Pihlstrm

Pragmatism mediates rival extremes, and religion is no exception: The problems of realism versus antirealism, evidentialism versus fideism, and science versus religion, along with other key issues in the philosophy of religion, receive new interpretations when examined from a pragmatist point of view. Religion is then understood as a human practice with certain inherent aims and goals, responding to specific human needs and interests, serving certain important human values, and seeking to resolve problematic situations that naturally arise from our practices themselves, especially our need to live with our vulnerability, finitude, guilt, and mortality.

.. a solid work of scholarship, well-argued and insightful. -- -Michael L. Raposa Lehigh University Pihlstrom does an amazing job of sorting the metaphysical remnants of Kant in James and in the process restores questions of metaphysics to American pragmatism. This excellent work of scholarship calls for a deeper examination of pragmatist metaphysics and its challenge to religion and its reformulation. -- -Roger A. Ward Georgetown College Sami Pihlstrom develops here a pragmatic philosophy of religion enriched by Immanuel Kant's insight that belief or faith in God is motivated chiefly by ethical considerations. He illumines important connections between Kant's writing on religion and that of William James and John Dewey, and shows how attention to both can provide resources for a conception and analysis of religion that is pluralistic and takes normativity seriously. Pihlstrom has been a leading interpreter of the pragmatists and it is good to have this important constructive contribution to the philosophy of religion. -- -Wayne Proudfoot Columbia University

Sami Pihlström is a professor of philosophy of religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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ISBN 13	9780823251582
ISBN 10	0823251586
Title	Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God
Author	Sami Pihlström
Series	American Philosophy
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Fordham University Press
Year published	2013-04-23
Number of pages	264
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