Susan Haack
University of Miami — Miami, FL
Susan Haack was educated at Oxford (B.A., 1966, B.Phil. 1968), and Cambridge (Ph.D.,1972). She was a Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge (1968-71), and then Lecturer (1971-6), Reader (1976-82), and Professor of Philosophy (1982-90) at the University of Warwick, U.K. Since 1990 she has taught at the University of Miami, where she is presently Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law, and teaches each year a course for the philosophy department, an interdisciplinary course for the College of Arts and Sciences, and a course in the Law School. In 1997-8 she was national Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professor of Philosophy; and in the course of her career she has held visiting professorships at the University of Guelph (Canada), the University of Cape Town (South Africa), the University of Virginia, the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Aarhus University (Denmark), and (in the faculty of laws) the University of Bologna, as well as a Fellowship in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, and a Harkness Fellowship at Princeton.
Haack is the author of Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism, Philosophy of Logics, Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays, and Defending Science -- Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism. Two new books, Putting Philosophy to Work: Inquiry and Its Place in Culture, and Sciencia, sociedad y cultura, appeared in 2008.
Susan can be reached via e-mail at shaack [at] law [dot] miami [dot] edu
Below, listen to part one of Susan talking about science during a Point of Inquiry episode:
