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COSMOS + TAXIS | Volume 8 Issues 4 + 5 2020 ISSN 2291-5079 Vol 8 | Issue 4 + 5 2020 COSMOS + TAXIS Studies in Emergent Order and Organization Philosophy, the World, Life and the Law: In Honour of Susan Haack PART I INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHY AND HOW WE GO ABOUT IT THE WORLD AND HOW WE UNDERSTAND IT COVER IMAGE Susan Haack on being awarded the COSMOS + TAXIS Ulysses Medal by University College Dublin Studies in Emergent Order and Organization Photo by Jason Clarke VOLUME 8 | ISSUE 4 + 5 2020 http: www.jasonclarkephotography.ie PHILOSOPHY, THE WORLD, LIFE AND EDITORIAL BOARDS THE LAW: IN HONOUR OF SUSAN HAACK HONORARY FOUNDING EDITORS EDITORS Joaquin Fuster David Emanuel Andersson* PART I University of California, Los Angeles (editor-in-chief) David F. Hardwick* National Sun Yat-sen University, The University of British Columbia Taiwan Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai William Butos University of Hong Kong (deputy editor) Foreword: “An Immense and Enduring Contribution” .............1 Trinity College Russell Brown Frederick Turner University of Texas at Dallas Laurent Dobuzinskis* Editor’s Preface ............................................2 (deputy editor) Simon Fraser University Mark Migotti Giovanni B. Grandi From There to Here: Fifty-Plus Years of Philosophy (deputy editor) with Susan Haack . 4 The University of British Columbia Mark Migotti Leslie Marsh* (managing editor) The University of British Columbia PHILOSOPHY AND HOW WE GO ABOUT IT Nathan Robert Cockram (assistant managing editor) Susan Haack’s Pragmatism as a The University of British Columbia Multi-faceted Philosophy ...................................38 Jaime Nubiola CONSULTING EDITORS Metaphysics, Religion, and Death Corey Abel Peter G. Klein or We’ll Always Have Paris ..................................48 Denver Baylor University Rosa Maria Mayorga Thierry Aimar Paul Lewis Naturalism, Innocent Realism and Haack’s Sciences Po Paris King’s College London subtle art of balancing Philosophy ...........................60 Nurit Alfasi Ted G. Lewis Ben Gurion University Technology Assessment Group Sofia Inês Albornoz Stein and Adriano Naves De Brito of the Negev Salinas, CA Learning from Fiction ......................................69 Theodore Burczak Joseph Isaac Lifshitz Meggan Padvorac Denison University The Shalem College Gene Callahan Jacky Mallett New York University Reykjavik University THE WORLD AND HOW WE UNDERSTAND IT Chor-Yung Cheung Alberto Mingardi City University of Hong Kong Istituto Bruno Leoni Truth as Representation, Not Will ............................73 Francesco Di Iorio Stefano Moroni Robert Lane Nankai University, China Milan Polytechnic Perception, Abduction, and Foundherentism ..................82 Gus diZerega* Edmund Neill Taos, NM New College of the Humanities Aaron Bruce Wilson Péter Érdi Mikayla Novak Blocking Inquiry in the Name of Science: Kalamazoo College Australian National University The Dispute About Nothing ................................95 Evelyn Lechner Gick Christian Onof Cornelis De Waal Dartmouth College Imperial College London Peter Gordon Mark Pennington University of Southern California King’s College London Lauren K. Hall* Jason Potts Rochester Institute of Technology Royal Melbourne Institute Marek Hudik* of Technology University of Economics Prague Don Ross Sanford Ikeda University of Cape Town and Purchase College Georgia State University State University of New York Virgil Storr Andrew Irvine George Mason University The University of British Columbia Stephen Turner Byron Kaldis University of South Florida The Hellenic Open University Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo Ashford University *Executive committee http://cosmosandtaxis.org COSMOS + TAXIS COVER IMAGE Susan Haack on being awarded the Ulysses Medal by University College Dublin Photo by Jason Clarke Foreword Five years ago, I attended the “Cambridge Lectures,” orga- http: www.jasonclarkephotography.ie nized bi-annually over five days at Queen’s College, Cam- bridge by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies. “An Immense and The topics were a mix of the weighty (“Law and Religion”) and the stimulating (“Shakespeare and the Foundations of Consti- Enduring Contribution” tutional Thought”). After three days, most of us were starting to wonder how as younger people we’d ever endured years of sitting through long lectures in tight quarters. RUSSELL BROWN On the morning of day 4, Professor Susan Haack arrived Justice for her advertised discussion of “Justice, Truth and Proof: Supreme Court of Canada Theory and Practice.” I had previously cited some of her work in my own scholarship, so I had an inkling of what to expect. Web: https://www.scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/ But only an inkling. For the next 90 minutes before a house bio-eng.aspx?id=russell-brown packed with some of Canada’s leading jurists, she delivered a master class on a subject intimately connected to much of our work, but which taken as a group we did not know about, as- sumed but did not think about, or knew about but usually got wrong: epistemology and, more precisely, the epistemologi- cal concepts that the law wields in applying burdens of proof, weighing evidence, and finding facts. A gifted teacher, Susan (if I may) removed the blinkers, prompting a cascade of questions from her listeners. What of Daubert? What of (so-called) statistical “proof” of causation? Is legal fact-finding the same as scientific fact-finding? -Gen tly, but firmly, and in an engaging and deeply interdisciplin- ary way that saw her drawing from philosophies of science and law, she helped us sort through our confusions about the epistemological concepts with which we lawyers must daily grapple. And, of course, she left us with a reading list in the form of several chapters from her new book, Evidence Mat- ters—which has since been cited at my Court for helping my colleagues and me to understand and explain the distinction between scientific and civil standards of proof. As Susan reminds us in Evidence Matters, “the law is up to its neck in epistemology.” It takes a gifted philosopher to appreciate it, but a gifted teacher to help the rest of us un- derstand just what that means for how we go about our daily work. In this subject, among many others, Susan’s contribu- tion has been immense and, I can personally attest, enduring. Of course, many of us will continue to get it wrong. But where we get it right, I will always think that it all started one sunny Thursday morning at Queen’s College, Cambridge, when an eminent philosopher responded to the (to put it mildly) unenviable call to teach a thing or two to a roomful of cramped and lecture-weary lawyers. I hope Susan will accept my warmest congratulations on this volume of essays compiled as a tribute to her inestimable contributions. I am also grateful to the editors for inviting me to offer these few words. Foreword 1 COSMOS + TAXIS Editor’s Preface Susan Haack is something else; everyone who has heard her deliver a lecture, or read her work with care, knows this. The twenty-six authors who have contributed to this Festschrift, prepared for presentation to Professor Haack on the occa- MARK MIGOTTI sion of her seventy-fifth birthday, know it especially well. The articles and testimonials here published are tokens of Web: appreciation and esteem for our honoree and her work. Sev- https://phil.ucalgary.ca/profiles/mark-migotti en of the authors are students of Haack’s, the others grate- ful fellow thinkers, and discussants and correspondents, encountered along the way. The volume was undertaken at the behest of Leslie Marsh, Managing Editor of Cosmos and Taxis, and I am especially grateful to him for this, as for the efficiency and good cheer with which he has seen the project through. Haack’s work covers everything, so the division into four categories that gives this volume its title and organiz- es the contents of its essays was a matter of discretionary judgement, not evident fact. Still, the headings, and their order, get something right. Haack has advanced philosophy in substantial ways, a tremendous accomplishment, not to mention something that’s been deemed virtually impossi- ble, for subtle reasons by good minds; and she has done so with special regard to questions of: the world and our ways of knowing it, the value and values of human life, and jus- tice, truth, and the law. Reading Haack attentively yields ever greater pleasure and appreciation; skimming is worse than pointless—read with energy and intent or spare yourself the (non)effort! Nevertheless, as Justice Brown so effectively conveys in his Foreword, however much you’ve enjoyed Haack’s articula- tion of her ideas on the page, seeing her present them in per- son is, well, something else. And the same goes for the move from knowing Susan only from the page or podium to mak- ing her acquaintance, and from being her student to being her friend. As I’ve worked on this volume—and these prefa- tory words—I’ve been struck by how comparatively recent- ly many of my co-contributors met Susan, how quickly her dedication, industry, loyalty, patience, candour, breadth and intensity of mind, sense of humour and fun, sharp wit, etc. etc. make a deep and lasting impression. I’ve known Susan for almost two-thirds of my life, and haven’t the foggiest what I would be without her. In any case, I’m unutterably glad that the scholarship I had won assigned me to the University of Warwick. My undergraduate major had been history, my philosophical views upon beginning my MPhil had a continental accent, and I revelled in Rich- ard Rorty’s brash thumbing of his nose at the crabbed ana- lytic establishment. How likely was it that I would write my 2 VOLUME 8 | ISSUE 4 + 5 2020 COSMOS + TAXIS thesis under the department’s resident logic person?! I’m thankful both for the plasticity of young minds, and the rare luck of encountering a real philosopher. Thank you Susan; my memories of the two of us stand- ing at the blackboard in your Warwick office, after my fellow students had dispersed, going at it hammer and tongs over Rorty, Putnam, Peirce, Kant, whomever, whatever, are indelible and treasured, my gratitude for our philosophical discussions over the telephone, more often than not on more days of the year than not, deep and abiding.
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