Putting Philosophy to Work: Inquiry and Its Place in Culture -- Essays on Science, Religion, Law, Literature, and Life (Expanded Edition)
"Doing justice to these essays in a couple of sentences is a tough assignment. Susan Haack shows how the approach to philosophy she has done much to articulate can illuminate an impressively wide range of important issues - philosophical, scientific, social and legal - which she analyses with balance and rigor. A great collection!" --F. John Celndinnen, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne"In these times, when one has to fight against irrationalism and pedantry, Haack's new book is a powerful stimulus for those who believe in the value of intelligence, honesty, and informed common sense. Haack has become one of the greatest Pragmatists; in the spirit of classical Pragmatism, she regrets the present state of philosophy, trapped between analytic scholasticism, dogmatic ideology, irrelevant technicalities, and grandiloquent vacuities. These essays reflect a mature conception of philosophy and rational inquiry from an outstandingly sensible philosopher." --Maria J. FrÃ¡polli, Univeristy of Granada, President of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science"Susan Haack has been amazingly and admirably energetic, creative, and productive. Her range extends from logic, epistemology, metaphysics, etc., to science, religion, law, literature, and life. There is almost no topic on which she does not contribute penetrating and reasonable viewpoints of her own - with rigor, clarity, scope, depth, pertinence, and significance. This book, manifesting the intellectual integrity of a real and responsible thinker, will interest every reader who really cares about wisdom, truth, and the world." --Chen Bo, Professor of Philosophy, Peking University"In these times, when one has to fight against irrationalism and pedantry, Haack's new book is a powerful stimulus for those who believe in the value of intelligence, honesty, and informed common sense. Haack has become one of the greatest Pragmatists; in the spirit of classical Pragmatism, she regrets the present state of philosophy, trapped between analytic scholasticism, dogmatic ideology, irrelevant technicalities, and grandiloquent vacuities. These essays reflect a mature conception of philosophy and rational inquiry from an outstandingly sensible philosopher." --Maria J. Frápolli, Univeristy of Granada, President of the Spanish Society for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science"Susan Haack has been amazingly and admirably energetic, creative, and productive. Her range extends from logic, epistemology, metaphysics, etc., to science, religion, law, literature, and life. There is almost no topic on which she does not contribute penetrating and reasonable viewpoints of her own - with rigor, clarity, scope, depth, pertinence, and significance. This book, manifesting the intellectual integrity of a real and responsible thinker, will interest every reader who really cares about wisdom, truth, and the world." --Chen Bo, Professor of Philosophy, Peking University--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.