Illustrato con esempi tratti dalla storia della scienza, questo approccio a note questioni sull'evidenza e sui metodi scientifici affronta interrogativi vitali riguardanti la scienza e il suo posto nella società. Scrivendo con umorismo e stile diretto, la Haack traghetta i lettori al di là delle 'guerre scientifiche' verso una comprensione del valore, e dei limiti, dell'impresa scientifica.

Il libro affronta ¡1 rapporto fra evidenze empiriche e diritto. Quali problemi si pongono in un processo quando si tratta di acquisire evidenze empiriche? È il diritto probatorio adeguato a questo compito? Sono adeguate le pratiche scientifiche alle esigenze del diritto? Con spirito pragmatista, Susan Haack, forte del suo precedente lavoro in epistemologia e filosofia della scienza, si confronta con le questioni della prova, della probabilità e della causalità nei processi americani e non solo. Diversi casi sono discussi in dettaglio per mostrare i problemi della valutazione delle evidenze, della loro ammissibilità e del valore probatorio. Analizzando come le evidenze, in particolare scientifiche, sono trattate da avvocati, esperti, giudici e giurie, l'autrice offre un contributo alla comprensione dei modi in cui il diritto gestisce le questioni epistemologiche.

This engaging and wide-ranging collection of essays is informed and unified by the conviction that philosophy can, and should, engage with real-world issues. Susan Haack's keen analytical skills and well-chosen illustrations illuminate a diverse range of cultural questions; and her direct style and wry sense of humor make complex ideas and subtle distinctions accessible to serious readers whatever their discipline or particular interests. Putting Philosophy to Work will appeal not only to philosophers but also to thoughtful scientists, economists, legal thinkers, historians, literary scholars, and humanists. This new, expanded second edition includes several previously unpublished essays: a devastating critique of Karl Popper's highly (and dangerously) influential philosophy of science; a searching and thought-provoking analysis of scientism; and a groundbreaking paper on 'academic ethics in a preposterous environment' that every professor, and would-be professor, should read.

One of the most prestigious living philosophers, Haack (philosophy and law, U. of Miami) challenges the rivalry between foundationalism and coherentism as simply one more epistemological dualism, and suggests an intermediate approach to epistemology that recognizes a less-than-absolute contribution of both individual experience and mutual support in constructing and verifying knowledge. She has corrected but not substantially revised the 1993 first edition, though in her preface she does explain some of the references that she thought were pan-anglophone but turned out to be British. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This wide-ranging collection of Susan Haack’s new and recent essays offers applied philosophy in a new key and a fresh voice — subtle, penetrating analyses of vital issues about science, society, religion, law, literature, even about what makes a life meaningful.
Is truth one, or many—or both? Or could it be just an illusion?
Are science and religion compatible? Does science itself require a kind of faith?
Is consistency intellectually indispensable, or merely 'the hobgoblin of little minds'?
How does truth relate to justice, and how can courts best handle the scientific testimony often vital to a case?
Is economics the 'queen of the social sciences,' or are its scientific pretensions largely bogus?
Is philosophy itself a science, or is it more akin to literature?
How can we learn so much about life from fiction, when the stories novelists tell are not true?
Whether she is telling the 'sad, sleazy saga' of a drug company’s efforts to suppress the unfavorable results of a clinical trial it had funded, disentangling the many senses of 'coherent,' or reflecting on the growth of intellectual character, Haack writes with the clarity, verve, and wit her readers have come to expect.

Haack (humanities, philosophy, and law; U. of Miami) says her goal is not to add more fuel to the Science Wars, but to articulate a new perspective on what science is and does. She defends the pretension of science to proclaim how the world is, but in only a quite modest and qualified way, and within the boundaries of human cognitive capacities and limitations. She has added a new preface to the 2003 first edition. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

After an introduction tracing the history of the philosophical movement of pragmatism, Haack (philosophy and law, U. of Miami) presents 33 examples of pragmatist writings, both classical and more contemporary. In her presentation of classic works, she includes some of the logic, metaphysics, and theory of inquiry of Charles Sanders Peirce; the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and ethics of William James; the political philosophy, philosophy of education, epistemology, and philosophy of art of John Dewey; and the social psychology of George Herbert Mead. For the newer workers, she has sought to achieve representative balance between the radical and conservative branches of modern pragmatism. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Haack (arts and sciences, philosophy, and law, U. of Miami) defends science to explain the nature of the world, but in only quite a modest, qualified way, and from the perspective of a more general understanding of human cognitive capacities and limitations. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack's book has established an international reputation (translated into five languages) for its accessibility, clarity, conciseness, orderliness, and range as well as for its thorough scholarship and careful analyses. Haack discusses the scope and purpose of logic, validity, truth-functions, quantification and ontology, names, descriptions, truth, truth-bearers, the set-theoretical and semantic paradoxes, and modality. She also explores the motivations for a whole range of nonclassical systems of logic, including many-valued logics, fuzzy logic, modal and tense logics, and relevance logics.