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What Is Pragmatism and Why Does It Matter? | Dr. Sami Pihlström
1 hour 17 minutes Posted Aug 29, 2025 at 5:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail Pragmatism is a prominent position in 19th century philosophy. In this interview, Dr. Sami Pihlström guides us from Peirce, William James, and Dewey to neopragmatists like Rorty and Putnam, asking hard questions about truth, realism, meaning, and the problem of evil. We compare analytic philosophy of religion with Wittgensteinian approaches, explore whether pragmatism is compatible with religious belief, and examine how “the cash-value of truth” reshapes debates about evidenc...