Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God / Sami Pihlström.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pihlström, Sami, Author.

Series:

American Philosophy

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Pragmatic Aspects of Kantian Theism

2 Deweyan Pragmatic Religious Naturalism

3 Rorty versus Putnam: Neopragmatist Philosophy of Religion

4 The Jamesian Pragmatic Method in the Philosophy of Religion

5 The Problem of Evil and the Limits of Philosophy

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9241-X

OCLC:

1350686059