Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God | by Sami Pihlström | ‎ Fordham Univ Pr | ‎ English

Product description Review ". . . a solid work of scholarship, well-argued and insightful."-----Michael L. Raposa, Lehigh University"Pihlström 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 CollegeSami 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 About the Author Sami Pihlström is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä and Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.Sami Pihlström is a professor of philosophy of religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland.