Susan Haack
Susan Haack (* 1945 in England ) is Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Miami . She deals with logic , philosophy of language , philosophy of science and epistemology . She is a representative of pragmatism in the footsteps of Charles Sanders Peirce .
Life path
Haack studied at St Hilda's College of Oxford University (1963-68), where Jean Austin, the widow of JL Austin , her first teacher was. She received her BA in philosophy, politics and economics in 1966. From 1968 to 1971 she taught as a fellow at New Hall at Cambridge University . In the meantime, she turned to studying philosophy. She heard Plato from Gilbert Ryle and logic from Michael Dummett . The MA degree took place in 1969 in Oxford and Cambridge. She wrote her dissertation (B.Phil.) With David Pears on ambiguity . Her dissertation, which she completed in 1972, was supervised by Timothy Smiley .
In 1971, Haack moved to the University of Warwick , first as a lecturer (1971–1976), then as a reader (1976–1982), before she was appointed professor of philosophy in 1982. She stayed in Warwick until 1990 and went to the University of Miami in 1990 as a professor of philosophy. In 1997 and 1998 she was also a visiting professor at the School of Law in Miami. In 1998 she also became a Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, in 2000 Professor of Law and in 2006 she was awarded the title “University Distinguished Professor in the Humanities”.
Haack has held a large number of visiting professorships during her career, including several times in Europe, in particular at the University of Gerona in Spain and in 2013 also at the University of Münster.
Haack is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Association and an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She is a past president of the Charles S. Peirce Society and a past member of the US / UK Educational Commission.
Teaching
In her first work, Haack primarily deals with questions of the philosophical meaning of "alternative" (especially multi-valued) logics. Questions about the meaning of connectors, the role of truth makers and the definition of truth are in the foreground.
With the publication Evidence and Inquiry she turned to epistemological questions. In doing so, she dealt with the basic directions of fundamentalism and coherentism using the made-up term "foundherentism" and tries to avoid the weaknesses of both approaches by a new formulation of evidence as a basis for justifying knowledge.
In Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate , an anthology of 11 essays, Haack shows the breadth of her interests, which range from philosophy of science to pragmatism to conservative feminism and multiculturalism. In doing so, she turns against various forms of relativism or modern cynicism, for example by Richard Rorty, as well as too strict objectivism.
Fonts
- Deviant Logic . Cambridge University Press 1974
- with Konstantin Kolenda: Two Fallibilists in Search of the Truth . Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 51 (1977) (Supplementary Volumes), 63-104 ( online , about similarities and differences between Peirce and Popper)
- Philosophy of Logics . Cambridge University Press 1978 (translated into six languages)
- Evidence and Inquiry . 1993, 2nd exp. Edition Prometheus Books 2009
- Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism . The University of Chicago Press 1996. (Extended version of Deviant Logic ) ( Review ; PDF; 12 kB)
- Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays . University Of Chicago Press 1998
- Defending Science - Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism . Prometheus Books 2003.
- Edited with Robert Lane: Pragmatism, Old and New . 2006
- Putting Philosophy to Work: Inquiry and Its Place in Culture . Prometheus Books 2008
literature
- Rose Ann Christian: Restricting the Scope of the Ethics of Belief: Haack's Alternative to Clifford and James . In: J Am Acad Relig . 77, No. 3, 2009, pp. 461-493. doi : 10.1093 / jaarel / lfp037 .
Web links
- Susan Haack on the University of Miami web page
- Susan Haack Summary biography.
- Interview with Susan Haack from Richard Carrier
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Articles on the Internet
- Not Cynicism, but Synechism: Lessons from Classical Pragmatism (PDF; 56 kB)
- " Vulgar Rortyism, " The New Criterion 16 (1997).
- Knowledge and Propaganda. Reflectons of an Old Feminjst (PDF; 658 kB)
- Epistemology Legalized: Or, Truth, Justice, and the American Way (PDF; 68 kB), The Olin Lecture in Jurisprudence, presented at Notre Dame Law School, October 2004
- Trial and Error: The Supreme Court's Philosophy of Science, " American Journal of Public Health 2005.
- Formal Philosophy? A Plea for Pluralism (PDF; 78 kB), (published in: John Symonds and Vincent Henricks, eds., Formal Philosophy)
- The Pluralistic Universe of Law: Towards a Neo-Classical Legal Pragmatism ( MS Word ; 155 kB)
- The Legitimacy of Metaphysics: Kant's Legacy to Peirce and Peirce's Legacy to Philosophy Today (PDF; 201 kB)
- The Meaning of Pragmatism: The Ethics of Terminology and the Language of Philosophy (PDF; 219 kB), teorema, Vol. XXVIII / 3, 2009, 9–29
- Six Signs of Scientism ( MS Word ; 104 kB) ( presentation online )
- Just Say “No” to Logical Negativism ( MS Word ; 120 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fictional interview with Peirce versus Rorty ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 75 kB)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Haack, Susan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English philosopher |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | England |