Ulf Zackariasson
Professor at Department of Theology; Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 63 01
- E-mail:
- ulf.zackariasson@teol.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 B
- Postal address:
- Box 511
751 20 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Professor of Philosophy of Religion, vice-dean at the Faculty of Theology
Keywords
- professor
- philosophy of religion
- teologi
Biography
Lecturer in philosophy of religion at the Department of Theology, Uppsala University, since 2012, promoted to professor of Philosophy of Religion in 2023. I defended my dissertation at the same department in 2002 with the thesis Forces by Which We Live: Religion and Religious Experience from the Perspective of a Pragmatic Philosophical Anthropology and was accepted in 2011 as unpaid docent at the same institution. 2005-2009 I worked as a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Agder, Kristiansand. My research interests mainly concern American pragmatism (both classical pragmatism and neopragmatism) and the opportunities it offers to reflection on philosophical problems actualized by the human phenomenon of religion, e.g. questions about the role of religion in the public sphere, religious experience and moral criticism of religion.
Publications
Recent publications
Part of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatism, p. 247-256, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
Stances and Skills to in-Habit the World: Pragmatic Agnosticisms and Religion
Part of Philosophies, p. 57-16, 2024
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Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies
Lexington Books, 2022
Förnuft och religion: filosofiska undersökningar
Artos & Norma bokförlag, 2021
Religious Agency as Vehicle and Source of Critique: A Pragmatist Contribution
Part of The Reformation of Philosophy, p. 207-220, Mohr Siebeck, 2020
All publications
Articles in journal
Stances and Skills to in-Habit the World: Pragmatic Agnosticisms and Religion
Part of Philosophies, p. 57-16, 2024
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"We are all survivors": Survivor guilt and pragmatic meliorism
Part of Acta Philosophica Fennica, p. 153-162, 2019
Pragmatic Pluralisms and Religious Diversities: Towards Diapracte
Part of American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 2019
Negotiating Evil: an introduction
Part of International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, p. 329-333, 2017
Justification and Critique: The Will to Believe and the Public Nature of Religious Belief
Part of William James Studies, p. 28-51, 2016
Miracle and the Miraculous: A Pragmatic Approach
Part of Pragmatism Today, p. 100-112, 2016
What is it to be religiously mistaken? A Pragmatist Perspective
Part of The Pluralist, p. 292-312, 2015
Philosophy of Religion as Cultural Politics: A(nother) Rortian Proposal
Part of American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, p. 25-41, 2014
Rortys kulturpolitik och frågan om religion i det offentliga samtalet
Part of Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, p. 26-34, 2011
What's Wrong with the Adequacy-Argument? A Pragmatic Diagnosis
Part of Sophia - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics, p. 11-23, 2011
Pragmatism and Moral Critique of Religion
Part of American journal of theology and philosophy, p. 3-14, 2010
Part of International journal for philosophy of religion, p. 11-28, 2009
Part of Minerva, p. 1-29, 2007
Pragmatism without 'Pragmatism'?: A Reply to Talisse
Part of Philosophical Writings, p. 27-38, 2007
A Problem with Alston's Indirect Analogy-Argument from Religious Experience
Part of Religious studies (Print), p. 329-341, 2006
Att filosofera om religion: Mot en fördjupad debatt kring filosofiska religionsförståelser
Part of Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, p. 15-25, 2006
Part of Svensk Kyrkotidning, p. 380-384, 2002
Books
Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies
Lexington Books, 2022
Förnuft och religion: filosofiska undersökningar
Artos & Norma bokförlag, 2021
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Chapters in book
Part of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatism, p. 247-256, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
Religious Agency as Vehicle and Source of Critique: A Pragmatist Contribution
Part of The Reformation of Philosophy, p. 207-220, Mohr Siebeck, 2020
Academic Feminism as Immanent Critique: Three Feminist Theological Critiques of Patriarchy
Part of A Constructive Critique of Religion, p. 44-57, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Pragmatism and the Origins of Religion
Part of The Origins of Religion, p. 36-46, Luther-Agricola Society, 2018
Introduction: Engaging Relativism and Post-Truth
Part of Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society, p. 1-17, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Att arbeta pragmatiskt: Vikten av att förstå skillnaden mellan teori, metod och material
Part of Filosofiska metoder i praktiken, p. 49-63, Uppsala University, 2018
Part of Var inte rädd, p. 141-142, Förbundet kristen humanism, 2017
Introduction – Religion, Law and Democracy: New Challenges for Society and Research
Part of Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy, p. 7-18, Nordic Academic Press, 2016
A Skeptical Pragmatic Engagement with Skeptical Theism
Part of Action, Belief and Inquiry, p. 109-130, Nordic Pragmatism Network, 2015
Rortian Perspectives on Use and Abuse of Memory in Science, Religion and Demoratic Public Life
Part of Monument and Memory, p. 163-176, LIT Verlag, 2015
The future of the customized science debate
Part of The customization of science, p. 193-200, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Part of The customization of science, p. 158-175, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Pragmatism on Science and Religion
Part of Springer Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2013
Filosofiska perspektiv på religionens offentlighet
Part of Religionens offentlighet, p. 61-81, Artos & Norma bokförlag, 2013
Part of Att undervisa om religion och vetenskap med grund i ämnesplanen för religionsvetenskap, p. 45-60, Studentlitteratur, 2012
Filosofi med ett mänskligt ansikte: Livsfrihet och pragmatisk realism
Part of Motståndets möjligheter, Artos & Norma bokförlag, 2011
Part of The Continuum Companion to Pragmatism, p. 192-200, Continuum, 2011
Religion i det offentliga rummet
Part of Religionsfilosofisk introduktion - existens och samhälle, p. 129-141, Verbum förlag, 2010
Ronald Dworkin - Holbergprisvinner i 2007
Part of Agder Vitenskapsakademi Årbok 2007, p. 158-161, Høyskoleforlaget, 2008
När religion blir politisk: En kritik av den filosofiska debatten
Part of Frihet och gränser, p. 181-196, Brutus Östlings bokförlag Symposion, 2006
Argument för och emot Guds existens
Part of Unga filosofer. Antologi för gymnasieskolan, p. 181-194, Natur & Kultur, Stockholm, 2002
Collections (editor)
Filosofiska metoder i praktiken
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018
Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society: Possibilities and Challenges
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Relativism and post-truth in contemporary society: Possibilities and Challanges
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy: New Challenges for Society and Research
Nordic Academic Press, 2016
Action, Belief and Inquiry: Pragmatist Perspectives on Science, Society and Religion
Nordic Pragmatism Network, 2015
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Monograph doctoral thesis
Other
Part of Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, p. 620-624, 2020
Gavin Flood: Religion and the Philosophy of Life.Oxford: Oxford Univer-sity Press, 2019, 464 pp
Part of Temenos, p. 278-280, 2020
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Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God
Part of Theoria, p. 196-200, 2014
Part of Teologisk Tidsskrift, p. 94-96, 2013