Bøker av Susan (University of Miami) Haack

With her characteristic clarity and verve, Susan Haack brings her original and distinctive work in theory of knowledge and philosophy of science to bear on real-life legal issues. She includes analyses of a variety of cases and summaries of relevant scientific work, of the many roles of the scientific peer-review system, and of relevant legal developments.

In this volume, Haack includes the complete text of "Deviant Logic", as well as five additional papers that expand and update it. Two of these essays critique fuzzy logic, while three augment "Deviant Logic"'s treatment of deduction and logical truth.

Philosopher Susan Haack deploys her analytic skills on some highly charged cultural and social debates, such as relativism, multiculturalism, feminism, affirmative action, pragmatisms old and new, science , literature, the future of the academy and of philosophy itself.

aeo A distinguished author who advances a major new theory. aeo A provocative critical discussion of recent critiques of epistemology. aeo 'Pragmatista approach is experiencing a big revival in US.

The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack's book has established an international reputation (translated into five languages) for its accessibility, clarity, conciseness, orderliness, and range as well as for its thorough scholarship and careful analyses.