Susan Haack e-mail(Inicie sesión)

Contenido principal del artículo

Autores/as

Susan Haack e-mail(Inicie sesión)

Resumen

61
A genuine inquirer seeks the truth; pseudo-inquirers, to make a case for some proposition determined in advance: the sham reasoner, for some proposition his commitment to which is already evident; the fake reasoner, for some proposition to the truth-value of which he is indifferent, but advancing which he believes will benefit himself. Our preposterous environment, in which "everyone shall produce written research in order to live, and it shall be decreed a knowledge explosion" (Barzun) hinders genuine inquiry, encourages the sham and the fake. It has encouraged the factitious despair of the possibility of honest inquiry articulated in much recent philosophy.

Métricas

Search GoogleScholar




Detalles

Detalles del artículo

Sección
Estudios
Biografía del autor/a

Susan Haack, University of Miami.

P. O. Box 248054 Coral Gables, Florida 33124-4670