Author: Susan Haack
Susan Haack 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. She has written on topics ranging from logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics to philosophy of science, evidence law, scientific testimony, pragmatism—both legal and philosophical—and social philosophy. Her 2005 article “Mystery-Mongering, Prejudice and the Search for Truth: Replies to Some Reservations” won the Selma V. Forkosch award given by Free Inquiry for excellence in writing. Her many other awards include, most recently (2016) the Ulysses Medal, the highest honor given by University College, Dublin.
The Real Question: Can Philosophy Be Saved?
I certainly share our editor’s sense that academic philosophy is in bad shape, and his concern for the future of our discipline. But his diagnosis—that, in what he sees as a kind of culture war in our profession, the side that appeals to “awe and transcendence” seems to be winning—strikes me as way off the mark.
9/11/02
For me at least, it is still hard to speak or even think clearly about the terrible events of a year ago. The sheer complexity of the tangled political, legal, military, strategic, theological, and philosophical ques-tions—about international politics and the role of religion, about the goals, strategies, and costs of a new kind of war, …
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