Ulf Zackariasson

Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion

Melioristic Case Studies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking the pragmatic insistence on the primacy of practice seriously, this book argues for the fruitfulness of a pragmatic philosophy of religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics within the philosophy of religion: miracles, religious diversity, and what it is to be religiously mistaken.

Produktdetails

• American Philosophy Series
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781666903010
• ISBN-10: 1666903019
• Artikelnr.: 62756673

Autorenporträt

Ulf Zackariasson is associate professor of philosophy of religion at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I: A Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion with a Melioristic Flavor
1. The Pragmatic raison d'étre of Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
2. Pragmatism and Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
Part II: Melioristic Applications: Three Case Studies in the Pragmatic
Philosophy of Religion
3. What Is It to Be Religiously Mistaken? (and Why We Should Concentrate on
That Question)
4. Our Claimed Lives: Meliorism, Miracles and the Miraculous
5. Pragmatic Pluralisms and Religious Diversities: Diapractice and
Existential Agent-Regret
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
About the Author