Sami Pihlstrom is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His previous publications include "Pragmatism and Philosophical Anthropology" (Peter Lang, 1998), "Naturalizing the Transcendental: A Pragmatic View "(Prometheus, 2003) and "Pragmatic Moral Realism" (Rodopi, 2005). He is a board member of the Central European Pragmatist Forum and the Nordic Pragmatism Network.