Evidence and inquiry : a pragmatist reconstruction of epistemology
Described by Hilary Putnam as both a fine introduction and a significant contribution to epistemology, and by Anthony Quinton as at once comprehensive ... and judicious, Evidence and Inquiry is unique both in its scope and in its originality. C.I. Lewis's foundationalism, BonJour's and Davidson's coherentism, Popper s critical rationalism, Quine's naturalism, and Rorty's, Stich's, and Churchland's anti-epistemological neopragmatism all come under Haack's uniquely thorough critical scrutiny. Core epistemological questions about the nature of belief, the character and structure of evidence, the determinants of evidential quality, the relation of justification, probability, and truth, among others, are given refreshingly novel, and reasonable, answers
Print Book, English, 2009
2nd, expanded ed View all formats and editions
Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y., 2009
425 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781591026891, 159102689X
223918960
Introduction
Foundationalism versus coherentism : a dichotomy disclaimed
Foundationalism undermined
Coherentism discomposed
Foundherentism articulated
The evidence of the senses : refutations and conjectures
Naturalism disambiguated
The evidence against reliabilism
Revolutionary scientism subverted
Vulgar pragmatism : an unedifying prospect
Foundherentism ratified
Selected essays
"Know" is just a four-letter word
Knowledge and propaganda : reflections of an old feminist
"The ethics of belief" reconsidered
Epistemology legalized : or, truth, justice, and the American way