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Subject: Announcing new paperback, Susan Haack's "Evidence and Enquiry"
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Keywords: evidential reasoning, rationality, epistemology.


Announcing new paperback,

"Evidence and Enquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology"

by Susan Haack.




"This book is at once a fine and a significant contribution to contemporary
epistemology. In addition to elaborating and persuasively defending a
position of her own which adroitly steers between the Scylla of apriorism
and the Charybdis of scientism, Susan Haack discusses and makes powerful
and highly detailed criticisms of the views of a range of contemporary
philosophers - Sir Karl Popper, W.V.O. Quine, Richard Rorty, Alvin Goldman
and Paul and Patricia Churchland, among others - criticisms to which these
philosophers and their numerous admirers will have to reply."

- Hilary Putnam, Harvard University.


"Susan Haack's book is a most impressive contribution to the recent revival
of epistemology. It is at once comprehensive - both in the range of
problems that it deals with and in the wealth of recent discussion that it
examines - and judicious - in the care with which things often confused
are discriminated and with which conclusions are kept firmly in touch with 
the reasons that support them. Susan Haack's demolition of various forms
of fashionable relativism is admirably effective. I was pleased to
discover that I have, without realizing it, always been some kind of
foundherentist."

- Anthony Quinton, Trinity College, Oxford.


"Susan Haack here offers a new look at traditional theory of knowledge.
She knows the subject well and proposes reasonable and original solutions
to its problems. The book is forceful and refreshing and very much
worth the attention of anyone who is interested in epistemology."

- Roderick M. Chisholm, Brown University.


"I read Susan Haack's book with both pleasure and profit. It contains a
uniquely thorough critique of standard epistemological theories and of
more recent attempts (e.g. Rorty's) to discredit, or replace, the whole
analytic enterprise. The failures of traditional foundationalism and
coherence accounts are plainly displayed and a satisfying synthesis of
the legitimate elements of both is achieved. The whole is done with 
exemplary clarity."

- Sir Peter Strawson, Magdalen College, Oxford.


"Students of literature stand to learn a great deal from Haack's superb
book, which should be read carefully by anyone with a serious interest
in any aspect of epistemology. ... Haack has an admirable gift for clarity,
concision, and rigour. ... [H]er work stands in sharp opposition to the
bombast and carelessness characteristic of postmodernist treatments of
similar topics."

- Paisley Livingston, McGill University, in MLN.


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"Evidence and Enquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology"
by Susan Haack. First published as a paperback 1995 by Blackwell Publishers. 
Price $ 21.95 (U.S.), 14.99 Pounds (U.K.).

Inspection copy requests to 

UK  = inspcopies@cix.compulink.co.uk

USA = blkwell@world.std.com


(none to poster please).


Inspection copies are only given out to people who teach a relevant course
with 12 or more students. Inspection copy requests should include
course title and student numbers.
