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Article: Facts, Truefacts, Factoids; or, Why Are They Still Saying Those Nasty Things about Epistemology?
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- Yearbook of English Studies
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- January 1, 1999
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'Epistemology still looks classy to weak textualists'. (Richard Rorty) 'Vulgar pragmatism [is] an unedifying prospect. [. . .] There could be no honest intellectual work in Rorty's post-epistemological utopia'. (Susan Haack)
Those are both pretty nasty things to say. On the one hand, who would want to be thought of as a 'weak' textualist and therefore to be accused of thinking good things about epistemology because of failing to be a 'strong' textualist?[1] On the other, who would want to be a 'vulgar' pragmatist advocating a cynical and hypocritical post-epistemology in which there was only 'dishonest' work to be done?[2] The battle-lines between pragmatists ...
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