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...
Pragmatism mediates rival extremes, and religion is no exception: The problems of realism versus antirealism, evidentialism versus fideism, and scienc...
The Continuum Companion to Pragmatism offers thedefinitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy. The book covers allthe fundamental questions asked by pragmatism - areas that have continued to attractinterest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently asactive areas of research. Twelve specially commissioned essays from aninternational team of experts reveal where important work continues to be donein the area and, most valuably, the exciting new directions the field istaking. The Companion explores issues pertaining to aesthetics, economics, education,...
The Continuum Companion to Pragmatism offers thedefinitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy. The book covers allthe fundamental qu...
Pragmatist Metaphysics proposes a pragmatist re-articulation of the nature, aims and methods of metaphysics. Rather than regarding metaphysics as a 'first philosophy', an inquiry into the world independent of human perspectives, the pragmatist views metaphysics as an inquiry into categorizations of reality laden with human practices. Insofar as our categorizations of reality are practice-laden, they are also, inevitably, value-laden. Sami Pihlstrom argues that metaphysics does not, then, study the world's 'own' categorial structure, but a structure we, through our conceptual and...
Pragmatist Metaphysics proposes a pragmatist re-articulation of the nature, aims and methods of metaphysics. Rather than regarding metaphysics as a...
