Sami Pihlstrom is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. His previous publications include Pragmatism and Philosophical Anthropology (Peter Lang, 1998), Naturalizing the Transcendental: A Pragmatic View (Prometheus, 2003) and Pragmatic Moral Realism (Rodopi, 2005). He is a board member of the Central European Pragmatist Forum and the Nordic Pragmatism Network.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Realism, truthmaking, and a pragmatist view on truth and reality; 3. The transcendental method in pragmatist metaphysics; 4. Seeking a via media: metaphysical conflicts pragmatically reconsidered; 5. The ethical grounds of metaphysics; 6. Modal and moral realisms; 7. Pragmatism and religious metaphysics; References; Index.

"In an age when analytic philosophy and much contemporary pragmatic thought focuses on only this or that particular problem, Pihlström's masterful and wide-ranging philosophical project recalls the thoroughgoing philosophical systems of the classical pragmatists like Peirce and James and Dewey who saw every part of philosophy to hang together. Ethics and religion, mind and metaphysics, language and logic, all appear together in Pihlström's pragmatism, and all interpenetrate in a dynamic and developmental view of the humanity in the world. This book is must reading not only for pragmatists but for anyone who wants to understand the consilience of strands of philosophical thought in twenty-first century." - Elizabeth F. Cooke, Creighton University, USA