Sami Pihlström (PhD from the University of Helsinki in 1996) is, since 2014, Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has previously served as, among other things, Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä (2006-2014), the Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2009-2015), and the Chair (2019-2021) and Vice-Chair (2016-2018) of the Research Council for Culture and Society at the Academy of Finland. He is the President of the Philosophical Society of Finland (since 2016) and of the William James Society (2023-2024), and a Vice-President of Institut International de Philosophie (I.I.P., since 2022). He is also one of the founders of the Nordic Pragmatism Network and the European Pragmatism Association. Since the 1990s, he has published actively on pragmatism, realism, transcendental philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of religion.

His recent books include Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy: On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other (Helsinki University Press, 2020), Why Solipsism Matters (Bloomsbury, 2020), Pragmatist Truth in the Post-Truth Age: Sincerity, Normativity, and Humanism (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of the Humanities (SUNY Press, 2022), and Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion (Lexington Books, forthcoming 2023). He is an invited lifetime member of Academia Europaea, I.I.P., the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.