Putting Philosophy to Work
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Putting Philosophy to Work

Inquiry and Its Place in Culture -- Essays on Science, Religion, Law, Literature, and Life

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eBook - ePub

Putting Philosophy to Work

Inquiry and Its Place in Culture -- Essays on Science, Religion, Law, Literature, and Life

About this book

This engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays is informed and unified by the conviction that philosophy can, and should, engage with real-world issues. Susan Haack's keen analytical skills and well-chosen illustrations illuminate a diverse range of cultural questions; and her direct style and wry sense of humor make complex ideas and subtle distinctions accessible to serious readers whatever their discipline or particular interests. Putting Philosophy to Work will appeal not only to philosophers but also to thoughtful scientists, economists, legal thinkers, historians, literary scholars, and humanists. This new, expanded second edition includes several previously unpublished essays: a devastating critique of Karl Popper's highly (and dangerously) influential philosophy of science; a searching and thought-provoking analysis of scientism; and a groundbreaking paper on "academic ethics in a preposterous environment" that every professor, and would-be professor, should read.

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Information

Publisher
Prometheus
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781616144944
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophers

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Praise
  5. About the Author
  6. Dedication
  7. Philosophy
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Preface to the Expanded Edition
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction: Putting Philosophy to Work
  12. 1. Staying for an Answer: The Untidy Process of Groping for Truth
  13. 2. The Same, Only Different
  14. 3. The Unity of Truth and the Plurality of Truths
  15. 4. Coherence, Consistency, Cogency, Congruity, Cohesiveness, &c.: Remain Calm! Don’t Go Overboard!
  16. 5. Not Cynicism, but Synechism: Lessons from Classical Pragmatism
  17. 6. Science, Economics, “Vision”
  18. 7. Six Signs of Scientism
  19. 8. The Integrity of Science: What It Means, Why It Matters
  20. 9. Scientific Secrecy and “Spin”: The Sad, Sleazy Saga of the Trials of Remune
  21. 10. Truth and Justice, Inquiry and Advocacy, Science and Law
  22. 11. Trial and Error: The Supreme Court’s Philosophy of Science
  23. 12. Just Say “No” to Logical Negativism
  24. 13. An Epistemologist Among the Epidemiologists
  25. 14. Fallibilism and Faith, Naturalism and the Supernatural, Science and Religion
  26. 15. The Ideal of Intellectual Integrity, in Life and Literature
  27. 16. After My Own Heart: Dorothy Sayers’s Feminism
  28. 17. Worthwhile Lives
  29. 18. Why I Am Not an Oxymoron
  30. 19. Formal Philosophy?—A Plea for Pluralism
  31. 20. Out of Step: Academic Ethics in a Preposterous Environment
  32. Notes
  33. Index
  34. Back Cover