Sami Pihlström - Curriculum Vitae#

Degrees (major: theoretical philosophy, minor: literary history and criticism): M.Phil. (1993), Lic.Phil. (1994), Ph.D. (1996), all at the University of Helsinki (UH), Faculty of Arts. (Ph.D. thesis: Structuring the World: The Issue of Realism and the Nature of Ontological Problems in Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism.)

Leader of the research projects “The Limits of Naturalism” (UH), funded by the Academy of Finland (AF) (150.000€, 2003–2006), “The Ethical Grounds of Metaphysics” (University of Jyväskylä (UJ)), funded by the AF (400.000€, 2008–2011), and “Human Mortality”, an Argumenta Project funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation (FCF) (200.000€, 2011–2013); team leader in the AF Centre of Excellence in Reason and Religious Recognition Research (PI: Risto Saarinen) (UH, 2014–2019); Finnish Foundations’ Professor Pool Sabbatical Grant (25.000€, 2015–2016).

Invited speaker in dozens of international academic conferences and symposia since the late 1990s (too numerous to be listed)

Teaching experience at the university level since 1993.

Supervision: 11 completed (since 2004) supervised dissertations (among them 2 co-supervised). Opponent or committee member in 4 doctoral disputations.

Evaluator of research proposals and grant applications: COST, UH, FCF, AF, SCAS-HCAS Erik Allardt Fellowship, Danish Academy of Science, Technology and Innovation, Irish Research Council, Emil Aaltosen Säätiö, Estonian Research Council, Norwegian Centre for Advanced Study, Dutch Research Council, European Science Foundation, SASPRO (Slovakian Academy of Sciences).

Philosophical journals etc.: (1) Editor of Ajatus, Yearbook of the Philosophical Society of Finland (1996–2004), Editor-in-Chief (2004–2011); (2) Executive Editor (one among three) of Sats: Nordic Journal of Philosophy (2006–2014); (3) Book Review Editor of Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (2008–2015); (4) member of the Editorial/Advisory/Consulting Boards of niin & näin (1993–), Königsberg (1996–1997), Facta Philosophica (1997–), “Pragmatism Cybrary” (www.pragmatism.org, 1999–), Human Affairs (2006–), Danish Yearbook of Philosophy (2009–), Pragmatism Today (2010–), Nordic Studies in Pragmatism (2010–), Ajatus (2011–), Acta Philosophica Tamperensia (2013–), Sats (2014–); (5) member of the Board of Associate Editors of the book series, Studies in Pragmatism and Values (within Value Inquiry Book Series, 1999-). Referee for dozens of journals and several major publishers, including Cambridge UP, Palgrave, The MIT Press, Bloomsbury.

Philosophical societies/associations, etc.: (1) member of the Board of the Philosophical Society of Finland (1996–); delegate of the Society in the General Assembly of FISP (Seoul, 2008); (2) member of the Executive Committee of the Charles S. Peirce Society (2006–2008), and of the Society’s committee for establishing an International Advisory Committee (2009); (3) member of the Board of Directors of the Central European Pragmatist Forum (2006–); (4) a founding member of the International Pragmatism Society (2006–), the Nordic Pragmatism Network (2006–), and the Nordic Kant Society (2007–); (5) one of the organizers of the First Nordic Pragmatism Conference (Helsinki, 2008); member of the Board of the Nordic Pragmatism Network (NPN, 2008–); the main organizer (PI) of the series of workshops, The Pragmatist Message (NOS-HS grant: 40.000€, Jyväskylä, Trondheim, Reykjavík, Uppsala, 2008–2010); PI of the NPN, with NordForsk funding (ca. 100.000€, 2010–2013); a program committee member, on behalf of NPN, of the 1st European Pragmatism Conference (Rome, 2012) and the 2nd European Pragmatism Conference (Paris, 2015); board member of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion (2015-).

Committee work and administrative duties (in relation to the major appointments and the HCAS Director's duties): too numerous to be listed, e.g., memberships in the UH Scientific Committee and the UH Committee for Societal Interaction; the Humanistic Committee of the Finnish National Library; Chair of the "Philosophy and Theology" panel of the Finnish Publication Forum project, etc.