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67Pragmatist Metaphysics: An Essay on the Ethical Grounds of OntologyAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 32 (3): 281-285. 2011.Pihlström’s book, Pragmatist Metaphysics, offers what he feels “no previous book-length study” (viii) has accomplished: as the title suggests, he sketches how metaphysics would look when done from a pragmatic perspective. This involves rejecting two assumptions: that metaphysics is necessarily “realistic” and that pragmatism is necessarily antimetaphysical. Taking his bearings from pragmatists both classic (e.g. Peirce, James, and Dewey) and contemporary (e.g. Putnam), he argues for a “pragmatic…Read more
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Living with Understanding: Subjectivity and Metaphysics in Kant, Apel, and the Neoclassical AlternativeDissertation, The University of Chicago. 2010.
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