Susan Haack: A Passionate Moderate
My two cents worth to Susan’s festschrift. classical liberalismEPISTEMEEpistemologyPeirceScientismSokal Hoaxsusan haacktestimony
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An Attempt Toward a Natural/Unnatural History of The Lay-Scientific Interface or How Walker Percy Got on the Way to Becoming a Radical (Anthropologist)
In Walker Percy, Philosopher anthropologyCharles Sanders PeirceculturePhilosophy of LanguageScientismScott CunninghamWalker Percy
Philosopher of Precision and Soul
In Walker Percy, Philosopher abstractioncomplexityphilosophical literatureRobert MusilScientismWalker Percy
Hayek and Hempel on the Nature, Role, and Limitations of Science
A chapter from this just published book. carl hempelFriedrich HayekPhilosophy of sciencePsychologyScientism
Scientism and its Discontents
Here’s an open access book by the most excellent and always provocative Susan Haack. Charles Sanders PeirceconstructivismFriedrich HayeknaturalismPhilosophyquineregressive leftscienceScientismsusan haack
Walker Percy Wednesday 177
CULTURE AS A SUBJECT OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD What happens when the functional method of the sciences is applied to cultural phenomena? Does culture lend itself to such an understanding? If there are difficulties in the cultural sciences, are the difficulties due to the complexity of the material, as is often alleged, or are the…
Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason
Liberty Press paperback release of 2010 Chicago hardcover edition. As with all Liberty Press books — a bargain! bruce caldwellFriedrich Hayekphilosophy of social sciencerationalismReasonScientism
But is it science?
Roger Scruton and Timothy Williamson discuss the relationship between philosophy and science, introduced by Tim Crane: But is it science? naturalismPhilosophyRoger ScrutonscienceScientismTim Cranetimothy williamson
Can Philosophy Be Saved?
The deliciously scathing and independent-minded Susan Haack in Free Inquiry. “The cannibal among the missionaries” — love it! This the quality of mind that I want and admire whatever one’s political persuasion. AtheismCognitive sciencecoherentismEpistemologyidentity politicsnaturalismPhilosophypragmatismregressive leftscience and religionScientismsusan haack
Does science have all the answers?
The eminently sensible and intellectually honest Susan Haack — an evidence-based philosopher who rightly rejects the epistemic immodesty characteristic of the prevailing rationalistic arrogance of philosophers and scientists. Philosophy for such folk is about what to think and not about how to think: whatever else might be attributed to liberalism, it has primarily embodied the idea that conceptions…
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