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Title

Putting philosophy to work : inquiry and its place in culture-essays on science, religion, law, literature, and life / by Susan Haack.

Author

Haack, Susan.

Publication

Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2013.

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Description

345 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Applied philosophy
• Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Putting philosophy to work -- Staying for an answer: the untidy process of groping for truth -- The same, only different -- The unity of truth and the plurality of truths -- Coherence, consistency, cogency, congruity, cohesiveness, &c.: remain calm! Don't go overboard! -- Not cynicism, but synechism: lessons from classical pragmatism -- Science, economics, "vision" -- Six signs of scientism -- The integrity of science: what it means, why it matters -- Scientific secrecy and "spin": the sad, sleazy saga of the trials of Remune -- Truth and justice, inquiry and advocacy, science and law -- Trial and error: the supreme court's philosophy of science -- Just say "no" to logical negativism -- An epistemologist among the epidemiologists -- Fallibilism and faith, naturalism and supernatural, science and religion -- The ideal of intellectual integrity, in life and literature -- After my own heart: Dorothy Sayers's feminism -- Worthwhile lives -- Why I am not an oxymoron -- Formal philosophy?-A plea for pluralism -- Out of step: academic ethics in preposterous environment.

ISBN

• 9781616144937 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1616144939 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013001484

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library