Dr. Susan Haack
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Professor Haack is the author of several well-known books, including Deviant Logic (Cambridge, 1974), Philosophy of Logics (Cambridge, 1978), Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology (Blackwell, 1993), Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism (Chicago, 1996), Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays (Chicago, 1998), and Defending Science -- Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism (Prometheus, 2003) as well as of numerous articles. She has been widely reviewed and cited in general interest publications such as the Times Literary Supplement, the Wilson Quarterly, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as in specialized journals. Internationally known, Professor Haack's work has been translated into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Korean, and Danish; and Prof. Haack is invited to speak and visit around the world. Her work is also strongly interdisciplinary; she has published in literary, legal, and scientific as well as philosophical journals, and has been invited to speak not only in philosophy departments and law schools but also at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, the American Council of Learned Societies, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences, etc. She has given numerous endowed university-wide lectures, including, as national Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professor of Philosophy, a series of public lectures at UM; and is known for her lively writing style and wry sense of humor as well as for her philosophical achievements. Professor Haack has received the Faculty Senate Distinguished Scholar Award, the Provost's Award for excellence in research, and awards for excellence in teaching, and the Graduate School's Award for "outstanding graduate mentor." Besides regular philosophy courses, she offers interdisciplinary courses for the College of Arts and Sciences, one on Science and Values and another on Philosophy and Literature, and a class on scientific testimony in the School of Law. Haack serves on the Board of the Shannon Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia, on the Advisory Board of the Peirce Edition Project, and on the editorial boards of numerous journals in the U.S., the U.K., Spain, and Brazil. The Portuguese edition of Prof. Haack's Philosophy of Logics was published in Brazil in fall 2002, and the Chinese edition in Beijing in summer 2003. Her most recent book, Defending Science -- Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism, was published in September of 2003. While this book has been in press, she has finished half-a-dozen papers on science in the law, edited an issue of the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Law, helped with the final stages of the Spanish translation of Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate, and begun to think about her next major project, on the Epistemological Novel. For more information, visit Dr. Haack's Summary Bio . Recent Pictures:
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Susan Haack (B.A., M.A., B.Phil., Oxford; Ph.D., Cambridge), formerly
Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge, and then professor of Philosophy at the
University of Warwick, is presently Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and
Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law at UM. Her areas
of interest include philosophy of logic and language, epistemology and
metaphysics, philosophy of science, including issues of scientific testimony
in court, Pragmatism, and feminism. 
