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This book approaches post-truth and relativism in a
multidisciplinary fashion. Researchers from astrophysics,
philosophy, psychology, media studies, religious studies,
anthropology, social epistemology and sociology discuss and analyse
the impact of relativism and post-truth both within the academy and
in society at large. The motivation for this multidisciplinary
approach is that relativism and post-truth are multifaceted
phenomena with complex histories that have played out differently
in different areas of society and different academic disciplines.
There is hence a multitude of ways in which to use and understand
the concepts and the phenomena to which they refer, and a multitude
of critiques and defenses as well. No single volume can capture the
ongoing discussions in different areas in all their complexity, but
the different chapters of the book can function as exemplifications
of the ramifications these phenomena have had.
This book approaches post-truth and relativism in a
multidisciplinary fashion. Researchers from astrophysics,
philosophy, psychology, media studies, religious studies,
anthropology, social epistemology and sociology discuss and analyse
the impact of relativism and post-truth both within the academy and
in society at large. The motivation for this multidisciplinary
approach is that relativism and post-truth are multifaceted
phenomena with complex histories that have played out differently
in different areas of society and different academic disciplines.
There is hence a multitude of ways in which to use and understand
the concepts and the phenomena to which they refer, and a multitude
of critiques and defenses as well. No single volume can capture the
ongoing discussions in different areas in all their complexity, but
the different chapters of the book can function as exemplifications
of the ramifications these phenomena have had.
In Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies, Ulf
Zackariasson argues for the fruitfulness of pragmatic philosophy of
religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics
within the contemporary philosophy of religion. Zackariasson first
outlines a version of pragmatic philosophy of religion that takes
the pragmatic insistence on the primacy of practice to heart. Here,
he shows that religious traditions and their secular counterparts
transmit a number of paradigmatic responses that adherents can draw
on in their encounters with human life's existential contingencies.
He further discusses the upshot of this approach for how we think
of miracles, religious diversity, and what it is to be religiously
mistaken. In each case, Zackariasson shows that a pragmatic
approach offers important novel perspectives and insights that
contemporary (primarily analytic) philosophy of religion tends to
neglect. By relating to debates and well-known positions within the
contemporary philosophy of religion, he also makes these novel
perspectives and insights concrete for those who are not already
committed pragmatists. The case studies thus serve as invitations
to constructive dialogue within an increasingly pluralistic
philosophy of religion.
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