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Title

Evidence and inquiry : a pragmatist reconstruction of epistemology / Susan Haack.

Author

Haack, Susan.

Publication

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2009.

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Description

425 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Described by Hilary Putnam as both a fine introduction and a significant contribution to epistemology, and by Anthony Quinton as at once comprehensive...and judicious, Evidence and Inquiry is unique both in its scope and in its originality. C. I. Lewis's foundationalism, BonJour's and Davidson's coherentism, Popper s critical rationalism, Quine's naturalism, and Rorty's, Stich's, and Churchland's anti-epistemological neopragmatism all come under Haack's uniquely thorough critical scrutiny. Core epistemological questions about the nature of belief, the character and structure of evidence, the determinants of evidential quality, the relation of justification, probability, and truth, among others, are given refreshingly novel, and reasonable, answers.

Subject

• Evidence
• Knowledge, Theory of

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Foundationalism versus coherentism : a dichotomy disclaimed -- Foundationalism undermined -- Coherentism discomposed -- Foundherentism articulated -- The evidence of the senses : refutations and conjectures -- Naturalism disambiguated -- The evidence against reliabilism -- Revolutionary scientism subverted -- Vulgar pragmatism : an unedifying prospect -- Foundherentism ratified -- Selected essays -- "Know" is just a four-letter word -- Knowledge and propaganda : reflections of an old feminist -- "The ethics of belief" reconsidered -- Epistemology legalized : or, truth, justice, and the American way.

ISBN

• 9781591026891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 159102689X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009000107

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Harvard Library