   susan haack (born 1945) is distinguished professor in the humanities, cooper senior scholar in arts and sciences, professor of philosophy, and professor of law at the university of miami (b.a., m.a., b.phil, oxford; ph.d., cambridge). she has written on logic, the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. her pragmatism follows that of charles sanders peirce. ==career== haack is a graduate of the university of oxford and the university of cambridge. at oxford, she studied at st. hilda's college, where her first philosophy teacher was jean austin, the widow of j. l. austin. as an undergraduate, she took politics, philosophy and economics and said of her taste for philosophy: "initially, the 'politics' part that most appealed to me. but somewhere down the line, despite encouragement from my politics tutor to pursue that subject, philosophy took over." she studied plato with gilbert ryle and logic with michael dummett. david pears supervised her b.phil. dissertation on ambiguity. at cambridge, she wrote her phd under the supervision of timothy smiley. she held the positions of fellow of new hall, cambridge and professor of philosophy at the university of warwick before taking her current position at the university of miami. haack has said of her career that she is "very independent": {{quote|rather than follow philosophical fads and fashions, i pursue questions i believe are important, and tackle them in the ways that seem most likely to yield results; i am beholden to no clique or citation cartel; i put no stock in the ranking of philosophy graduate programs over which my colleagues obsess; i accept no research or travel funds from my university; i avoid publishing in journals that insist on taking all the rights to my work; etc., etc. naturally, this independence comes at a price; but it also earns me the freedom to do the best work i can, without s
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