PERSONAL INFORMATION
Pihlström, Sami Johannes
Date of birth: December 27, 1969; Nationality: Finnish
URL for website: https://tuhat.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/en/person/spihlstr (University of Helsinki research database, containing full cv and a comprehensive list of my 400+ academic publications)
EDUCATION
1996 PhD (Theoretical philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland)
1993 Master’s degree (Theoretical philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, Finland)
CURRENT POSITION
2014 – Professor of Philosophy of Religion (Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS (selected)
2009 – 2015 Director (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland)
2006 – 2014 Professor of Practical Philosophy (also Department Vice-Head [2008-9], Dept. of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
2005 – 2007 Professor of Philosophy (also Department Head in 2007, Faculty of Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2019 Visiting Professor (short-term visits), Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris, France
2015 – 2016 Visiting Fellowship, Forum Scientiarum, University of Tübingen, Germany
2015 – 2016 Finnish Professors’ Sabbatical Pool Grant, Alfred Kordelin Foundation (25.000€)
2011 – 2013 Finnish Cultural Foundation Argumenta project, “Human Mortality” (PI) (200.000€)
2008 – 2011 Academy of Finland research project, “The Ethical Grounds of Ontology” (PI) (400.000€)
2003 – 2006 Academy of Finland research project, “The Limits of Naturalism” (PI) (150.000€)
1994 – 1998 Before university teaching positions, various scholarships for PhD studies and post-doctoral research; stipends granted by, e.g., the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Emil Aaltonen Foundation, the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation, and the UH Science Foundation.
SUPERVISION OF DOCTORAL STUDENTS
2004 – 2021 15 supervised PhD theses (plus dozens of Master’s theses) up to 2021, ca. 10 supervised PhD theses currently in progress. (Universities of Helsinki, Jyväskylä, and Tampere, Finland.)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES (heavily selected, only international and directorial listed)
2018 – 2021 As Doctoral Program Director, general responsibility for organizing doctoral training in theology and religious studies at the University of Helsinki.
2016 – Regular teaching as Professor at UH: lecture courses, graduate and doctoral seminars, etc.
2016 Winter School on “Philosophy of Death and Dying”, University of Tübingen, Germany
2008 – 2009 As Department Vice-Head at the University of Jyväskylä, main departmental responsibility for developing the teaching programs of the Dept. of Social Sciences and Philosophy.
2001 Socrates exchange lectures on “Solipsism”, University of Bremen, Germany
1993 – Extensive teaching experience at various universities and other institutions (especially Universities of Helsinki, Jyväskylä, and Tampere; also Turku, Oulu, Eastern Finland, Lapland, etc., as well as various summer institutes), both ad hoc courses and teaching related to the professorial duties based on the positions listed above.
ORGANISATION OF ACADEMIC MEETINGS
2014 – 2019 As a team leader at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence, “Reason and Religious Recognition”, several organized conferences.
2009 – 2016 As HCAS Director, main responsibility for organizing dozens of academic conferences.
2006 – 2021 As a co-founder and board member of the Nordic Pragmatism Network, key responsibilities for organizing Nordic and European Pragmatism Conferences and related events (e.g., in all the Nordic countries and in Rome and Paris); main responsibility for organizing the major 3rd European Pragmatism Conference in Helsinki in June, 2018.
1996 – 2021 As a board member of the Philosophical Society of Finland (since 2016, its President), responsibility for organizing dozens of philosophy conferences, international and national, including chairing the Organizing Committee of the 2019 Helsinki Entretiens of the I.I.P.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES (selected)
2019 – Chair, Philosophical and Aesthetic Sciences, Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters
2018 – 2021 Director, Doctoral Program in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Helsinki
2016 – 2021 Member and Chair (2019–2021, 2016–2018 Vice-Chair), Research Council for Culture and Society, Academy of Finland. Chairing the Research Council involves active participation in the activities of the Board of the Academy of Finland and its various sub-committees.
2016 – 2021 Board member, Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
2014 – 2019 Team leader and steering committee member, Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence, “Reason and Religious Recognition”, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki
2014 – 2015 Member, University of Helsinki Scientific Council
2013 – 2016 Member, University of Helsinki Committee for Societal Interaction
2010 – 2015 Steering committee member, University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study (UBIAS), including a senior committee membership at UBIAS Intercontinental Academia
2010 – 2015 Steering Group member, European Studies Network, University of Helsinki, Finland
2009 – Chair or member of various search committees and committees for developing externally funded research programs, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland; since 2016 at the Faculty of Theology, UH.
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST (selected, including reviewing activities)
2021 Evaluation Panel member, University of Turku doctoral programs
2018 – 2021 Academic Board member, Helsinki University Press
2018 International Evaluation Panel member, Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere
2016 – Editorial Board member, Acta Philosophica Fennica
2014 – 2016 Evaluation Committee member, SASPRO program, Slovak Academy of Sciences
2010 – 2017 Chair, Philosophy and Theology panel of the Finnish Publication Forum
2008 – 2015 Book Review Editor, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
2006 – 2014 Executive Editor, Sats: North European Journal of Philosophy
2004 – 2011 Editor-in-Chief, Ajatus: Yearbook of the Philosophical Society of Finland (Editor in 1996-2004, and Editorial Board member in 2011-2016)
ca. 2010 – Advisory Board member of, e.g., Human Affairs, Nordic Studies in Pragmatism, Studies in Pragmatism and Values, Pragmatism Cybrary
MEMBERSHIPS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
2020 – Member (invited), Societas Scientiarum Fennica
2017 – Member (invited), Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters
2016 – Member (invited), Institut International de Philosophie (I.I.P.), Board member 2017 – 2021
2016 – President, Philosophical Society of Finland (board member of the Society since 1996)
2015 – Member (invited), Academia Europaea
2015 – Board member, Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion
2006 – Board member and co-founder, Nordic Pragmatism Network (PI for the NPN’s projects and conference series with NOS-HS, Nordforsk, and Finnish Cultural Foundation funding in 2008-2018).
2006 – Member, board of directors, Central European Pragmatist Forum
2006 – 2008 Executive committee member, Charles S. Peirce Society
PUBLICATIONS
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Articles in refereed international academic journals (including reviews)
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Articles in international academic anthologies and in refereed international conference proceedings
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Articles in refereed Finnish academic journals (including reviews)
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Articles in Finnish academic anthologies and in refereed Finnish conference proceedings
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Academic monographs
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Textbooks
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Other academic publications (including edited books, reviews and minor articles in non-refereed journals)
[N.B. The ten (10) most important publications have been indicated with boldface.]
1. ARTICLES IN REFEREED INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC JOURNALS
1.1. Articles
1996 1. ‘Getting Ontologically Natural’, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 247 – 256 (cf. [5.1.2], ch. 3).
2. ‘A Solipsist in a Real World’, Dialectica, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 275 – 290 (cf. [5.1.2], ch. 2).
1997 3. ‘The Prospects of Transcendental Pragmatism: Reconciling Kant and James’, Philosophy Today, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 383 – 393 (cf. [5.1.2], ch. 5).
1998 4. ‘Correspondence Again? Internal Realism and Truth’, Problemos (Lithuania), Vol. 52, pp. 97 – 112 (cf. [5.1.2], ch. 3).
5. ‘Peircean Scholastic Realism and Transcendental Arguments’, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 382 – 413 (winner of the Charles S. Peirce Society’s essay prize, USD 500, in 1997; presented at the research seminar of the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, on October 30, 1997, and in a roundtable meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston, on August 13, 1998; cf. [5.1.3], ch. 3).
6. ‘Peirce vs. James: Susan Haack on Old and New Pragmatism’, The Philosophical Forum, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 66 – 85.
7. (coauthor: Arto Siitonen) ‘On the Philosophical Dimensions of Chess’, Inquiry, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 455 – 475.
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8. ‘Applied Philosophy: Problems and Applications’, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 121 – 133 (cf. [5.1.5], ch. 5).
9. ‘What Shall We Do with Emergence? A Survey of a Fundamental Issue in the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Science’, The South African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Special Issue in the Philosophy of Science), pp. 192 – 210.
10. ‘Hilary Putnam as a Religious Thinker’, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1/2: The Restoration of Philosophy – Interdisciplinary Perspectives, pp. 39 – 60 (in Finnish in [5.2.2], ch. 9).
11. ‘How Minds Understand Their World: Remarks on John McDowell’s Naturalism, Kantianism, and Pragmatism’, Facta Philosophica, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 227 – 243 (presented in a seminar on McDowell’s Mind and World at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, on June 2, 1998; cf. [5.1.3], ch. 4).
2000
12. ‘Two Kinds of Methodological Solipsism’, Sats, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 73 – 90 (cf. [5.1.4]).
13. ‘Thought and Health: On Therapeutical Philosophy and Philosophical Therapy’, Trames (Estonia), Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 380 – 393 (cf. [5.1.5], ch. 5).
2001
14. ‘Death – Mine or the Other’s? On the Possibility of Philosophical Thanatology’, Mortality, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 265 – 286 (presented at the 4th International Congress of Thanatology and Suicidology, Death, Dying and Suicide, in Stockholm, August 28 – 30, 2000; cf. [5.1.4], ch. 5).
15. ‘Naturalism, Transcendental Conditions, and the Self-Discipline of Philosophical Reason’, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 228 – 250 (an invited plenary paper presented at the 12th Internordic Philosophical Symposium Philosophy with a Human Face, at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, May 2 – 3, 1998; cf. [5.1.3], ch. 1).
2002
16. (coauthor: Charbel Niño El-Hani) ‘Emergence Theories and Pragmatic Realism’, Essays in Philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Special Issue on Pragmatism and Neo-Pragmatism), http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays (a longer version appears on the website of the Metaphysical Club, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens; presentation at the Metaphysical Club, March 5, 2002).
17. ‘Pragmatic and Transcendental Arguments for Theism: A Critical Examination’, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 195 – 213 (cf. [5.1.6], ch. 2).
18. ‘Conceptual Relativity, Contextualization, and Ontological Commitments’, Human Affairs, Vol. 12, pp. 26 – 52.
19. ‘On the Reality of Evil: A Jamesian Investigation’, Streams of William James, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 12 – 21 (cf. [5.1.6], ch. 4).
20. ‘William James on Death, Mortality, and Immortality’, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 605 – 628 (cf. [5.1.6], ch. 3).
21. (co-author: Charbel Niño El-Hani) ‘A Pragmatic Realist View of Emergence’, Manuscrito (Brazil), Vol. 25, Special No., pp. 105 – 154.
2003
22. ‘On the Concept of Philosophical Anthropology’, Journal of Philosophical Research, Vol. 28, pp. 259 – 285 (partly presented at the 13th Internordic Philosophical Symposium, Philosophy in its Past and Future, at the University of Bergen, Norway, May 19 – 21, 2000).
2004
23. ‘Recent Reinterpretations of the Transcendental’, Inquiry, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 289 – 314 (presented in the Finnish-Chinese Philosophy Symposium, Dialogues between Traditions of Contemporary Philosophy, at the Fudan University, Shanghai, China, on October 27, 2003; winner of the University of Kentucky 2003–2004 Prize Essay Competition, also partly presented at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, on October 29, 2004).
24. ‘Pragmatism and American Personalism: On the Possibility of Perspectival Metaphysics’, Iyyun, Vol. 53 (July), pp. 287 – 324 (cf. [5.1.6], ch. 6).
25. ‘Methodology without Metaphysics? A Pragmatic Critique’, Philosophy Today, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 188 – 215 (presented, with the title, ‘Methodology without Metaphysics? Problems in the Programs of Solipsism and Naturalism’, in the symposium, The Naturalistic Tension, at the University of Tampere, May 16 – 17, 2002).
2005
26. (coauthor: Arto Siitonen) ‘The Transcendental Method and (Post-)Empiricist Philosophy of Science’, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Vol. 36, pp. 81-106 (partly presented as a guest lecture at the Department of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, October 28, 2003, with the title, ‘Transcendental Idealism in Post-Empiricist Philosophy of Science’).
27. ‘A Pragmatic Critique of Three Kinds of Religious Naturalism’, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 177 – 218 (partly presented, with the title, ‘Emergence, Process Philosophy, and Theism: A Critique of “Religious Naturalism”’, in a meeting of the Danish Philosophical Society, at the University of Århus, Denmark, February 20 – 21, 2004, with an abstract available at http://www.humaniora.sdu.dk/~dfs/aarsmode2004/; in a NOS-H workshop, Rearticulations of Reason, at the University of Tampere, March 12 – 13, 2004; and in the workshop, Models in Science and Philosophy of Science, at the University of Tartu, Estonia, April 23, 2004).
28. ‘On the Skeptical “Foundation” of Ethics’, Humanitas, Vol. 17, pp. 159 – 187 (based on a comment on Robert McCarthy’s presentation, ‘The Sceptic’s Ascent’, at the 29th Annual Hume Society Conference in Helsinki, August 6 – 10, 2002; cf. [5.1.5], ch. 4).
29. ‘Truthmaking and Pragmatist Conceptions of Truth and Reality’, Minerva, Vol. 9, pp. 105 – 133, www.ul.ie/~philos/ (cf. [5.1.7], ch. 2).
2006
30. (coauthor: Heikki J. Koskinen) ‘Quine and Pragmatism’, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 309 – 346.
31. ‘Synthesizing Traditions: Rewriting the History of Pragmatism and Transcendental Philosophy’, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 375 – 390 (presented at the British Society for the History of Philosophy conference, Philosophy and Historiography, in Cambridge, UK, April 3 – 5, 2006).
32. ‘Emergent Truth and a Blind Spot: An Argument against Physicalism’, Facta Philosophica, Vol. 8, Nos. 1 – 2, pp. 79 – 101 (presented, with the title, ‘The “Blind Spot” of Physicalism’, at the NOS-H workshop, Naturalism and Normativity, in Stockholm, Sweden, June 2 – 3, 2006).
2007
33. ‘Transcendental Guilt: On an Emotional Condition of Moral Experience’, Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 87 – 111 (presented in the conference, Emotions, Others and the Self, at Åbo Akademi, Turku, August 25 – 27, 2005; abstract and paper, early version, also available electronically in the CD proceedings of the conference, ed. by Ylva Gustafsson et al.; cf. [5.1.8], ch. 2).
34. ‘Mortality as a Philosophical-Anthropological Issue: Philosophical Thanatology, Normativity, and “Human Nature”’, Human Affairs, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 54 – 70 (presented at the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, on December 18, 2006).
35. ‘Religion and Pseudo-Religion: An Elusive Boundary’, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 3 – 32.
36. ‘Meaningful Life in a Meaningless Cosmos? Assessing Two Rival Approaches’, Cosmos and History, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 4 – 17, online: www.cosmosandhistory.org (cf. [5.1.8], ch. 5).
37. ‘Metaphysics with a Human Face: William James and the Prospects of Pragmatist Metaphysics’, William James Studies, Vol. 2, online: http://williamjamesstudies.press.uiuc.edu/ (cf. [5.1.6], ch. 3).
38. ‘Panpsychism – a Neglected Jamesian Alternative?’, Journal of Philosophical Research, Vol. 32 (2007), pp. 319 – 347 (cf. [5.1.6], ch. 7).
39. ‘Transcendental Self-Deception’, Teorema, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 177 – 189.
40. ‘Brandom on Pragmatism’, Cognitio, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 265 – 287 (presented in Articulating Reasons – The Philosophy of Robert B. Brandom, at Pécs University, Hungary, April 25 – 26, 2005).
2008
41. ‘How (Not) to Write the History of Pragmatist Philosophy of Science?’, Perspectives on Science, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 26 – 69 (presented in the theory of science seminar at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, April 29, 2008; also in the program of, but not presented at, the HOPOS 2006 Conference, Paris, June 2006).
2009
42. ‘Pragmatism and Naturalized Transcendental Subjectivity’, Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1 – 13 (presented in the invited symposium, Pragmatism and Subjectivity, at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Vancouver, BC, April 8 – 12, 2009).
43. ‘Ethical Unthinkabilities and Philosophical Seriousness’, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 656 – 670 (cf. [5.1.8], ch. 4).
2010
44. ‘Pragmatism and the Ethical Grounds of Metaphysics’, Philosophical Topics, Vol. 36, No. 1 (2008), pp. 211 – 237 (a special issue on pragmatism and neopragmatism, ed. by Steven Levine; presented at the Department of Philosophy, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, April 30, 2008; cf. [5.1.7], ch. 5).
45. ‘Pragmatic Aspects of Kantian Theism’, The Pluralist, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 110 – 139 (partly presented at the 22nd World Congress of Philosophy, Rethinking Philosophy Today, in the section “Philosophy of Religion”, in Seoul, Korea, July 30 – August 5, 2008; a brief version forthcoming in e-proceedings; an early version also available at www.nordprag.org/online.html; cf. [5.1.7], ch. 7, and [5.1.9], ch. 2).
46. ‘Toward a Pragmatic Metaphysics of the Fact-Value Entanglement: Emergence or Continuity?’, Journal of Philosophical Research, Vol. 35, pp. 323 – 352 (presented in the NOS-HS workshop of the Nordic Pragmatism Network, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, May 14 – 15, 2009; an early version also available at www.nordprag.org/online.html).
47. ‘Seeking a Middle Path in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion: Two Case Studies of the Ethical Grounds of Metaphysics in Pragmatism’, Cognitio, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 101 – 121.
48. ‘Kant and Pragmatism’, in Pragmatism Today, Vol. 1, No. 2, online: www.pragmatismtoday.eu (an invited paper presented at the 3rd Nordic Pragmatism Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, on June 1, 2010, and at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, in Bratislava, Slovakia, on June 7, 2010).
2011
49. ‘Morton White’s Philosophy of Culture: Holistic Pragmatism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry’, Human Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 140 – 156.
50. ‘Eino Kaila on Pragmatism and Religion: An Introduction to Kaila’s 1912 Essay on William James’, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 146 – 157 (reprinted in a revised and expanded form in Ilkka Niiniluoto and Sami Pihlström (eds.), Reappraisals of Eino Kailas Philosophy, Acta Philosophica Fennica, Vol. 89, The Philosophical Society of Finland, Helsinki, 2012, pp. 195 – 211; presented in the international symposium, Eino Kaila 120 Years, at the University of Helsinki, September 2, 2010).
51. ‘The Contextuality of Scheme-(In)dependence in Pragmatist Metaphysics’, Synthesis Philosophica, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 161 – 173.
52. ‘Guilt: Facing the Problem of Ethical Solipsism’, Cosmos and History, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 114 – 135; online: www.cosmosandhistory.org (presented in the seminar, History, Memory, Politics, at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, on March 31, 2010; cf. [5.1.8], ch. 3).
2012
53. ‘The Problem of Evil and the Limits of Philosophy: Toward a Pragmatist Appreciation of the Impossibility of Theodicies’, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 159 – 184 (an invited paper presented at Columbia University, New York, on February 23, 2011; also partly presented, with the title, ‘The Problem of Evil in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion’, in the conference, Pragmatism and the Theory of Religion, at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany, February 16 – 18, 2012; cf. [5.1.9], ch. 6).
54. ‘A New Look at Wittgenstein and Pragmatism’, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 9 – 26 (special issue on Wittgenstein and pragmatism), www.journalofpragmatism.eu (an invited paper partly presented, with the title, “A Pragmatist Perspective on Wittgenstein and von Wright”, in the conference, Cambridge Pragmatism, at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK, May 31 – June 1, 2012).
55. ‘Toward Pragmatically Naturalized Transcendental Philosophy of Science and Pragmatic Scientific Realism’, Studia Philosophica Estonica, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 79 – 94, www.spe.ut.ee (an invited paper presented in the workshop, Practical Realism, at the University of Tartu, Estonia, June 15 – 17, 2011).
2013
56. ‘The Unity and Diversity of Pragmatist Thought’, Pragmatism Today, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 10 – 16, www.pragmatismtoday.eu (earlier version at http://www.nordprag.org/papers/epc1/Pihlstrom.pdf; an invited paper presented at the panel, Pragmatism and Modern Philosophy, 1st European Pragmatism Conference, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, September 19 – 21, 2012).
57. ‘Rationality, Religion, and Anti-Theodicy: The Promise of Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion’, Pragmatism Today, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 27 – 37, www.pragmatismtoday.eu (paper presented in the panel, Philosophical Interest in the Study of Religion, in a symposium on philosophy at religion at the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, on October 23, 2012; and in a workshop on rationality and philosophy of religion at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, on December 21, 2012).
2014
58. ‘Jonas and James: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Post-Holocaust Pragmatism’, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 31 – 51 (cf. [5.1.10], ch. 3).
59. ‘Does Death Make Us Equal?’, Philosophy Today, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 163 – 177 (a paper presented in the symposium, Health, Mortality, Inequality, at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, on June 18, 2013, and at the Nordic Specialist Course in Palliative Medicine in Helsinki, on January 30, 2014 and on January 28, 2016).
60. ‘A Pragmatist Dimension in Georg Henrik von Wright’s Philosophy’, Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 5 – 17.
61. ‘Pragmatist Perspectives on Theological and Religious Realism’, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 37 – 59.
2015
62. ‘Controlling Death: Pragmatism Meets Philosophical Thanatology’, Mortality, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 48 – 66 (paper presented, with the title, ‘Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of Death and Mortality’, as a guest lecture at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, on February 14, 2012, at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, on February 29, 2012; with the title ‘Toward a Pragmatist (yet Transcendental) Philosophy of Death and Mortality’, in the Argumenta Project symposium, Death, Dying, and Mortality: Philosophical and Social Perspectives, at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, on August 23, 2012; and with the title, ‘Human Mortality from a Pragmatist Perspective’, as a keynote talk in a workshop on pragmatism and death, at Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany, on April 12, 2013).
63. (co-authors: Arto Kallioniemi, Ari Sutinen) ‘Pedagogical Transaction in Religious Education: Diversified Society and John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education’, Religious Education, Vol. 110, No. 3, pp. 329 – 348.
2016
64. ‘Response to Dirk-Martin Grube’, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 76, No. 5, pp. 439 – 444; reprinted in Dirk-Martin Grube and William Van Herck (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Religious Diversity, Routledge, London and New York, 2018, pp. 67 – 72 (with a response by Grube).
65. (co-author: Sari Kivistö) ‘Kantian Anti-Theodicy and Job’s Sincerity’, Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 347 – 365, reprinted in Eike Brock and Ana Honnacker (eds.), Das Böse erzählen: Perspektiven aus Philosophie, Film und Literatur, Lit, Münster, 2017, pp. 147 – 169.
2017
66. ‘Why There Should Be No Argument from Evil: Remarks on Recognition, Antitheodicy, and Impossible Forgiveness’, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, Vol. 77, No. 4-5, pp. 523 – 536 (a plenary paper presented at the European Philosophy of Religion Conference, Evil, in Uppsala, August 25 – 28, 2016).
67. (co-author: Sari Kivistö) ‘The Metaphors of Knowledge and Academic Impact’, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 780 – 797.
68. (co-author: Sari Kivistö) ‘Theodicies as Failures of Recognition’, Religions, Vol. 8, 242 (Special Issue: Theodicy), www.mdpi.com/journal/religions (partly presented at a panel session on recognition at Columbia University, New York, November 16, 2017).
69. ‘Comparing Three Twentieth-Century Antitheodicies’, Humanities, Vol. 6, 98 (Special Issue: Philosophy in the 1900s), www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities (partly based on [5.1.12]).
2018
70. ‘Wittgenstein on Happiness: Harmony, Disharmony, and Antitheodicy’, Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 42, No. 1 (January 2019), pp. 15 – 39 (online publication 2018).
71. ‘Death and the Transcendental Subject’, Idealistic Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 323 – 339 (a paper presented at the philosophy research seminar, University of Helsinki, March 31, 2016).
2019
72. ‘A Pragmatist Approach to the Mutual Recognition between Ethico-Political and Theological Discourses on Evil and Suffering’, Political Theology, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 157 – 175 (special pragmatism issue).
73. ‘Finnish Versions of Pragmatist Humanism: Eino Kaila and Georg Henrik von Wright as Quasi-Pragmatists’, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 1 (special issue: European Pragmatism, eds. Giovanni Maddalena and Friedrich Stadler), https://journals.openedition.org/ejpap/1543.
74. ‘Meaningful and Meaningless Suffering’, Human Affairs, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 415–424.
2020
75. ‘Pragmatism and the Phenomenology of Suffering: Remarks on Antitheodicy, Detachment, and Embodied Subjectivity’, Phänomenologische Forschungen 2/2019, pp. 13–30 (an invited paper presented in the symposium, Phenomenology and Pragmatism, at Tübingen University, May 27-29, 2017).
76. ‘Kantian Pessimism and Jamesian Meliorism’, Con-textos Kantianos, Vol. 11, pp. 313 – 335, www.con-textos-kantianos.net.
