Kantian Transcendental Pessimism and Jamesian Empirical Meliorism
- Sami Pihlström University of Helsinki, Finland
Abstract
Autor/innen-Biografie
Sami Pihlström is (since 2014) Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
He is currently also the President of the Philosophical Society of Finland, as well as the Chair of the Research Council for Culture and Society at the Academy of Finland. He was previously (2009-2015) the Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He has since the 1990s published widely on pragmatism, realism, ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. His recent books include Death and Finitude: Toward a Pragmatic Transcendental Anthropology of Human Limits and Mortality 2016), Kantian Antitheodicy: Philosophical and Literary Varieties (Palgrave 2016) and Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy: On Viewing the World by Acknowledging.
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