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Article: TRUTH & CONSEQUENCES.
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- Commonweal
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- May 21, 1999
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Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate Susan Haack University of Chicago Press, $22.50, 212 pp.
This is a good book, which might perhaps have had a better title: In Defense of Truth. Philosopher and logician Susan Haack does passionately seek a middle position between absurd extremes on a number of questions. But her central passion concerns, as the blurb puts it, "whether there is such a thing as truth, whether there is a real difference between knowledge and propaganda," particularly in the case of science. This is, of course, a current battlefield. As she says: "The Old Deferentialists, taking the rationality of science for granted, assumed that there must be a ...
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...Susan Haack Defending Science--Within Reason ... Prometheus Books, 396 pages, $28 There are, Susan Haack says, two opposing schools of thought ... uniquely rational method of reaching the truth. Her plan is to steer a middle course ...
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