Susan Haack Quotes on Knowledge
Susan Haack's Evidence and Inquiry (1993, expanded 2009) defends foundherentism — a hybrid epistemology that combines what is defensible in foundationalism (the role of experience as input to belief) with what is defensible in coherentism (the requirement of mutual support among beliefs) — through the analogy of solving a crossword puzzle. The framework navigates between the foundationalist demand for an indubitable basis and the coherentist worry that any such basis must itself depend on prior beliefs, and grounds Haack's broader defense of a robust scientific realism against contemporary postmodernist and constructivist challenges. Defending Science — Within Reason and Putting Philosophy to Work continue the same systematic program.
Quotes
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Attributed to Susan Haack:
“Knowledge is more like a crossword puzzle than a building; it is held up by mutual support, not by a single foundation.”
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“Inquiry is the proper work of the intellect, and intellectual integrity is its first virtue.”
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“Science and humanism are not enemies; they are two faces of the same commitment to truth.”
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“Critical common-sensism is the antidote to both naive realism and fashionable skepticism.”
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“- Susan Blackmore, interview in MungBeing”
Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes. -
“Skeptic's Dictionary Newsletter 74”
Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.