Susan Haack

Susan Haack ( born 1945 in England) is a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami. It deals with logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science and epistemology. She is a representative of pragmatism in the footsteps of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Journey

Haack studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford University ( 1963-68 ), where Jean Austin, the widow of JL Austin, her first teacher was. Your B. A. acquired it in 1966 in philosophy, politics and economics. From 1968 to 1971 she taught as a Fellow of New Hall at Cambridge University. Meanwhile, she turned the focus to the study of philosophy. She heard Plato in Gilbert Ryle and logic at Michael Dummett. The conclusion as M. A. took place in 1969 in Oxford and Cambridge. The dissertation ( B.Phil. ) She wrote with David Pears on Ambuguität. Your work to Ph.D., which she completed in 1972, was supervised by Tomothy Smiley.

In 1971, Haack moved to the University of Warwick, first as a Lecturer ( 1971-1976 ), then as a lecturer ( Reader, 1976-1982 ) before being appointed in 1982 as professor of philosophy. She remained until 1990 in Warwick, and went in 1990 to the University of Miami as a professor of philosophy. In 1997 and 1998 she was also a visiting professor of the School of Law in Miami. In 1998 she was additionally 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 throughout their careers perceived a number of visiting professorships, including several times in Europe, particularly at the University of Girona in Spain and in 2013 also at the University of Münster.

Haack is a member of Phi Kappa Phi connection and an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She is a former President of the Charles S. Peirce Society and former member of the U.S. / UK Educational Commission.

Teaching

In their initial work Haack is primarily concerned with questions of philosophical meaning of " alternative " (especially polyvalent ) logics. Here are questions about the meaning of connectors, the role of truth-makers and the definition of truth in the foreground.

With Scripture Evidence and Inquiry, she turned to epistemological questions. Here they sat down on the basis of the art word " Foundherentism " with the basic directions of fundamentalism and coherentism apart and tried the weaknesses of both approaches by a new formulation of evidence as a basis for justification of knowledge to avoid.

In Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate, an anthology of 11 essays, Haack shows the range of their interests, ranging from the philosophy of science over the pragmatism to a conservative feminism and multiculturalism. She turns against various forms of relativism or modern cynicism about Richard Rorty as well as a to strict objectivism.

Writings

  • Deviant Logic. Cambridge University Press 1974
  • Konstantin Kolenda: Two Fallibilists in Search of the Truth. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 51 (1977 ) (Supplementary Volumes ), 63-104 (online, over the similarities and differences between Peirce and Popper )
  • Philosophy of Logics. Cambridge University Press, 1978 ( translated into six languages)
  • Evidence and Inquiry. 1993, 2nd exp. Ed Prometheus Books 2009
  • Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays. University Of Chicago Press 1998
  • Defending Science - Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism. Prometheus Books, 2003.
  • Edited by Robert Lane: Pragmatism, Old and New. 2006
  • Putting Philosophy to Work: Inquiry and Its Place in Culture. Prometheus Books 2008
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