Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God

by Sami Pihlstr M and Sami Pihlström

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823251586
• ISBN13: 9780823251582
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"