Professor Susan Haack, a distinguished professor in the humanities and Cooper senior scholar at the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of law at Miami Law, has written a new book, Towards a Pragmatist Legal Philosophy, forthcoming with Commercial Press of China. The book offers a new pragmatist legal philosophy, emphasizing practical consequences and real-world effects when interpreting and applying the law, rather than relying solely on abstract rules or principles.
Additionally, Haack was recently interviewed in Philosophy Now about “The Post-Truth Kerfuffle.” She discusses how the proliferation of falsehoods and half-truths fosters a “deep-seated mistrust of everything others tell us.”
Haack is a world-famous philosopher whose areas of study include epistemology and the philosophy of science. She was included, along with Confucius, Plato, and Aristotle, in Peter J. King’s One Hundred Philosophers: The Life and Work of the World’s Greatest Thinkers, and has received numerous awards, including the Ulysses Medal, the highest honor given by University College Dublin.
Haack has written a dozen books including Philosophy of Logics, Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate, Defending Science—Within Reason, Pragmatism, Old and New, Putting Philosophy to Work, Evidence Matters: Science, Proof, and Truth in the Law, and Scientism and its Discontents; and she has also published around 240 articles. She has also given over 700 external lectures worldwide in 30 countries.
