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Putting philosophy to work : inquiry and its place in culture : essays on science, religion, law, literature, and life
- Title
- Putting philosophy to work : inquiry and its place in culture : essays on science, religion, law, literature, and life / Susan Haack.
- Author
- Haack, Susan.
- Publication
- Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2013.
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- Description
- 345 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
- 1616144939
- LCCN
- 2013001484
- 40022472987
- OCLC
- ocn827852460
- 827852460
- SCSB-9428707
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library