Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Realism, truthmaking, and a pragmatist view on truth and reality
3. The transcendental method in pragmatist metaphysics
4. Seeking a via media: metaphysical conflicts pragmatically reconsidered
5. The ethical grounds of metaphysics
6. Modal and moral realisms
7. Pragmatism and religious metaphysics
References
Index

Promotional Information

Provides a novel reading of the relations between two central philosophical disciplines - metaphysics and ethics, from a pragmatist perspective.

About the Author

Sami Pihlström is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His previous publications include Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God (2013) and Taking Evil Seriously (2014). He is a board member of the Central European Pragmatist Forum and the Nordic Pragmatism Network.

Reviews

"In an age when analytic philosophy and much contemporary pragmatic thought focuses on only this or that particular problem, Pihlström's masterful and wide-ranging philosophical project recalls the thoroughgoing philosophical systems of the classical pragmatists like Peirce and James and Dewey who saw every part of philosophy to hang together. Ethics and religion, mind and metaphysics, language and logic, all appear together in Pihlström's pragmatism, and all interpenetrate in a dynamic and developmental view of the humanity in the world. This book is must reading not only for pragmatists but for anyone who wants to understand the consilience of strands of philosophical thought in twenty-first century." - Elizabeth F. Cooke, Creighton University, USA

A good primer for those with some background and interest in pragmatism and metaphysics, and who would like to see the latter tailored to the former, Philstrom's book makes for a good resource.
*American Journal of Theology & Philosophy*