Susan Haack, professor of philosophy and law and the Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami (Fla.), launches the winter term’s Philosophy Speaker Series Thursday, Jan. 24.
Her talk, “The Growth of Meaning and the Limits of Formalism: In Science, in Law,” begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Schaffer Library Phi Beta Kappa Room and is free and open to the public.
Haack received her doctorate from Cambridge where she was the Fellow of New Hall and later taught. She served as professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK, before landing at the University of Miami in 1990 where she has received the Provost’s Award for Research and the Faculty Senate Distinguished Scholar Award.
Haack has authored numerous articles and several books on logic, science, formalism and epistemology including her latest, “Putting Philosophy to Work: Inquiry and Its Place in Culture” (Prometheus Books, 2007). Haack has been a visiting lecturer at institutions around the world, and her interdisciplinary work has been translated into 10 languages.
Known for her lively writing style, wry sense of humor and philosophical achievements, Haack was included in Peter J. King’s “100 Philosophers: The Life and Work of the World’s Greatest Thinkers” (Barron, 2004).
Following is a schedule of the remaining winter term offerings in the series, which is sponsored by the Philosophy Department. All talks will be held in the Schaffer Library Phi Beta Kappa Room at 4:30 p.m.
Feb. 7: Linda Martin-Alcoff, Syracuse University, “Social Identity, Rationality and Epistemic Agency”
Feb. 21: Sean Kelley, Harvard University, “The Normative Nature of Perceptual Experience”
March 6: Katalin Balog, Yale University, “Zombies, Conceivability Arguments and the Phenomenal Concept Strategy”
Funding for the Philosophy Speaker Series is provided by the Ichabod Spencer Foundation. For more information, contact Department Chair Raymond Martin at (518) 388-6376 or via e-mail at martinr@union.edu.