Author: Sami Pihlstrom

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Sari Kivistö is Docent of Comparative Literature and (since 2015) Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the author of The Vices of Learning (2014) and Medical Analogy in Latin Satire (2009). Sami Pihlström is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland (since 2014). He was previously Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2009-2015). He is also President of the Philosophical Society of Finland. His previous publications include Pragmatist Metaphysics (2009) and Taking Evil Seriously (2014).




16 Ebooks by Sami Pihlstrom

Jacob L. Goodson: William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in ‘;Ethics, ‘ ‘;History of Philosophy, ‘ and ‘;Introduction to Philosophy’ courses t …
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€54.05
Sami Pihlstrom: Death and Finitude
Death and Finitude offers an examination and defense of a pragmatic transcendental anthropology applicable to the concepts of limit, finitude, and mortality that are constitutive of human life as we …
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€102.85
Sorin Baiasu & Sami Pihlström: Politics and Metaphysics in Kant
The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent …
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€38.99
Sami Pihlström & Sari Kivistö: Kantian Antitheodicy
This book defends antitheodicism, arguing that theodicies, seeking to excuse God for evil and suffering in the world, fail to ethically acknowledge the victims of suffering. The authors argue for thi …
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€53.49
Sami Pihlström & Friedrich Stadler: Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism
This book explores the complexity of two philosophical traditions, extending from their origins to the current developments in neopragmatism. Chapters deal with the first encounters of these traditio …
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€96.29
Magnus Schlette & Bettina Hollstein: Idealbildung, Sakralisierung, Religion
Was treibt die Religionsgeschichte an, wie lässt sich die Dynamik kultureller Innovation verstehen? Hans Joas gibt darauf mit dem Titel seines Buches »Die Macht des Heiligen« eine prägnante Antwort. …
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€36.99
Sorin Baiasu & Sami Pihlström: Politics and Metaphysics in Kant
The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent …
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€38.99
Sami Pihlstrom: Pragmatism and Objectivity
Pragmatism and Objectivity illuminates the nature of contemporary pragmatism against the background of Rescher’s work, resulting in a stronger grasp of the prospects and promises of this philosophica …
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€51.20
Sami Pihlstr m: Bloomsbury Companion to Pragmatism
Pragmatism provides not just a theoretical perspective on science and inquiry, but ways of being in the world, of knowing the reality we inhabit. Approaching this philosophical tradition as a diverse …
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€42.83
Sami Pihlström: Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of the Humanities
Humanist scholars often feel the need to defend the humanities. The value of humanistic research is sometimes challenged, as the cultural ‘reality’ investigated by disciplines such as history, litera …
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€34.99
Sami Pihlström: Realism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy
The essays collected in this volume and authored by Sami Pihlström emphasize that our relation to the world we live in and seek to represent and get to know better through our practices of conceptual …
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€106.99
Sami Pihlström & Sari Kivistö: Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness
This book argues that no ethically appropriate relation to other human beings is possible unless we treat them as genuinely other. The authors provide reasons to be critical of various attempts, many …
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€53.49
Jaana Eigi-Watkin & Endla Lohkivi: Practical Realist Philosophy of Science
The Estonian philosopher of science Rein Vihalemm (19382015) left two prominent and fruitful philosophical-methodological legacies that continue to captivate philosophers of science: a methodological …
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€48.90