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SusanHaack[hereafterSH],M.A.,B.Phil.Oxford,Ph.D.Cambridge,formerlyProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofWarwick(U.K),iscurrentlyCooperSeniorScholarinArtsandSciences,ProfessorofPhilosophy,andProfessorofLawattheUniversityofMiami(U.S.A.).SheistheauthorofDeviantLogic(Cambridge,1974);
PhilosophyofLogics(Cambridge,1978),EvidenceandInquiry:
TowardsReconstructioninEpistemology(Blackwell,1993);
DeviantLogic,FuzzyLogic:
BeyondtheFormalism,(Chicago,1996);
ManifestoofaPassionateModerate:
UnfashionableEssays(Chicago,1998),andDefendingScience--WithinReason(forthcoming);
andofnumerousarticlesonphilosophyoflogicandlanguage,epistemologyandmetaphysics,pragmatism,feminism,philosophyofscience,andscientifictestimonyincourt.HerworkhasbeentranslatedintoSpanish,French,Portuguese,Italian,German,Polish,Russian,Danish,KoreanandChinese.Avolumeofessaysonherworkisinpreparation.
ChenBo[hereafterCB],Ph.D.,ChinaRenminUniversity,isProfessorofPhilosophyatPekingUniversity,P.R.China.In2002-3heheldaCCSCfellowshipawardedbytheAmericanCouncilofLearnedSocieties,theSocialSciencesResearchCouncil,andtheNationalAcademyofSciences,asaVisitingScholarintheDepartmentofPhilosophyattheUniversityofMiami.
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CB:
ProfessorHaack,I'
mverygladtohavethisopportunitytointerviewyou.BecauseofyourbookPhilosophyofLogicsyouarewellknowninlogicalcirclesinChina,butweknowlittleaboutyoupersonally.Couldyoutellussomethingaboutyourself?
SH:
Well,let'
ssee:
IwasborninEnglandafterWorldWarII.Iwaseducatedatstateprimaryandgrammarschools;
atOxford,whereIearnedfirstmyB.A.inPhilosophy,Politics,andEconomics,andthentheB.Phil.inPhilosophy(IalsoreceivedtheM.A.,butatOxfordthisisaformality);
andthenatCambridge,whereIearnedmyPh.D.whileteachingatNewHall,aCambridgewomen'
scollege.Iwasthefirstpersoninmyfamilyevertogotouniversity.Still,lookingback,Ithinkmyphilosophicaleducationprobablybeganwithmy(maternal)grandparents,whohadlittleformalschooling,butentertainedmebyteachingmechallengingcardgamesandintroducingmetothewordpuzzlespublishedinthenewspapers--whichIsooncametorelishasmuchasmygrandmotherdid;
perhapsthiswastheseedthateventuallygrewintomycrosswordanalogyforthestructureofevidence.
AtOxford,whereIwasastudentatSt.Hilda'
sCollege,myfirstphilosophyteacherwasJeanAustin(widowofJ.L.Austin);
afterthat,IstudiedPlatowithGilbertRyle,andlogicwithMichaelDummett.IwrotemyB.Phil.dissertationunderthesupervisionofDavidPears;
itstopic,ambiguity,foreshadowedmylaterconvictionthatmanyimportantphilosophicalmistakesaretheresultofequivocations.AtCambridge,whereIwrotemyPh.D.underthesupervisionofTimothySmiley,IwasajuniorcolleagueofElizabethAnscombe,thennewlyappointedasProfessorofphilosophy,andcontinuedmyphilosophicaleducationbywayofouroften-heatedlunch-timeconversations.
AfterCambridge,Itaughtforalmosttwentyyears(1971-90)inthephilosophydepartmentattheUniversityofWarwick,oneofthenewuniversitiessetupinBritaininthe1960s.ItwasatWarwickthatIpreparedDeviantLogicforpublication,wrotePhilosophyofLogics,beganseriouslyreadingtheAmericanPragmatists,andstartedworkonEvidenceandInquiry.IjoinedthedepartmentofphilosophyattheUniversityofMiamiin1990,andacoupleofyearslatercompletedEvidenceandInquiry.Isoonfoundmyinterestsdrawnintwonewdirections:
Ibeganworkfirstonculturalandsocialissuesintersectingwithmyworkinepistemologyandwithpragmatism;
andthenonquestionsabouttheroleofexpert,andespeciallyscientific,testimonyinthecourts.AndsoIwrotetheessaysinManifestoofaPassionateModerate,includingtwopiecesontheextravagancesofself-styled"
culturalcritics"
ofsciencethateventuallyledtomymostrecentbook,DefendingScience--WithinReason;
andbegantoteachandpublishontheinteractionsofsciencewiththelaw.Theseinterestsarereflectedinmypresentposition:
asCooperSeniorScholarIteachaninterdisciplinarycourseeachyearfortheCollegeofArtsandSciences,andasProfessorofLawIteachacourseonthelawofscientifictestimony.
WhileIwasatWarwickIalsoheldvisitingpositionsinCanada,SouthAfrica,Australia,andtheUnitedStates.Inthelasttenyearsorso,besidesextensivetravelsintheU.S.andCanada,IhavemademanyprofessionalvisitstoEurope,especiallySpain(whereIwasvisitingprofessorattheUniversityofSantiagodeCompostela),andScandinavia(whereIwasvisitingprofessoratAarhusUniversityinDenmark);
andalsotoBrazil.Ilearnedinthe1980sthatLoYihadtranslatedPhilosophyofLogicsintoChinese,butIonlyrecentlydiscoveredthatthisbookofminewaswell-knowninChina,thattranslationsofseveralexcerptshadalreadybeenpublished,andthatLoYi'
stranslationofthebookistoappearwithCommercialPress.OfcourseIamverypleasedthatnow,withyourtranslationofEvidenceandInquiryunderway,andourcollaborationaseditors-in-chiefofRenminUniversityPress'
sseries,ContemporaryWesternPhilosophyinTranslation,IamabletocommunicatewithcolleaguesinChinatoo.
DeviantLogic,yourfirstbook(listedinPhilosophyofScience,LogicandMathematicsinthe20thCenturyintheRoutledgeHistoryofPhilosophy,Vol.IX,1996),waspublishedin1974,andreprintedinanew,enlargededitionin1996.Whatdoyouthinkwerethemostimportantideaspresentedinthisbook?
Iwouldsay:
myarticulationofthedistinctionbetweendeviantandextendedlogics;
mydefenseoftheideathatlogicisrevisable;
andmydetailedstudiesofthemotivationforsomeproposedrevisionsof"
classical"
logic,thetwo-valued,unifiedpropositionalandpredicatecalculusweinheritedfromFrege,Peirce,Russell,etc.:
logicsofvagueness,freelogics,three-valuedlogicsforfuturecontingents,Intuitionistlogics,andquantumlogics.(Ilearnedaboutfuzzylogicandrelevancelogics,bothofwhichIdiscussedinmynextbook,onlyafterIfinishedDeviantLogic.)
Inyourview,classicallogicisrevisable.Myquestionis:
inwhatrespectscouldclassicallogicbe,orhasitbeen,revised?
Whatkindsoflogicalsystemaregenuinelydeviant?
Ithasbeenclaimedthatdeviantlogicschangethemeaningsofthelogicalconnectives,sothatthereisnorealconflict,norealrivalry,betweensupposedlydeviantsystemsandtheclassicalsystem.Whatdoyouthink?
Whetherapparentlydeviantlogicsaregenuinelyrivalsofclassicallogic,oraremerelynotationalvariantsoftheclassicalsystem(aquestionputontheagendaofphilosophyoflogicbyQuine)wasdiscussedatlengthinDeviantLogic.Iarguedthatchangeofmeaningoftheconnectivesisinsufficienttoshowthatthereisnorealrivalry;
andthat,inanycase,thereisnogoodgeneralargumentthatdeviantlogicsmustinvariablyinvolvechangeofmeaning.
ButasIsaidintheIntroductiontothenew,1996editionofthebook,thoughIstillholdthatitispossiblethatclassicallogicshouldturnouttobeinneedofrevision,Iwouldn'
tapproachthequestionofrevisabilityinquitethesamewayIdidearlier,whichInowfindtoosuperficiallylinguistic.Rather,Iwoulddistinguishthequestionofthenecessityofthelawsoflogicfromthequestionofourfallibilityaboutwhatthoselawsare;
andwouldstressthelatter.Itismostimplausibletosupposethatweareimmunefrommistakeinbelievingexactlythese,classicalprinciplestobe,letalonetobeall,thereallawsoflogic;
especially,Iwouldadd,giventhatthelogicalsystemwenowcall"
wasarrivedatonlyafteralongandarduoushistory,andthat,evenasitwasachievingitscanonicalarticulationinFregeandPeirce,non-classicalsystemswerealreadyunderexploration--byHughMcColl,forexample,andbyPeircehimself.
YoualsoarguedinDeviantLogicthat,thoughlogicisrevisable,wewouldneedtohavegoodreasonsbeforerevisingclassicallogic;
andthatinmanyinstancesthereasonsforproposeddeviationsfromclassicallogichavebeenquiteweak.Whyisthat?
Well,insomecasesthemotivationsseemtomequiteunconvincing.Forexample,IarguedintheoriginaleditionofDeviantLogicthatLukasiewicz'
sargumentforathree-valuedlogictorepresentfuturecontingents(whichhesawasderivedfromAristotle),restsonamodalfallacy;
andIargueintheneweditionofDeviantLogicthattheargumentsforfuzzylogicarebadlyconfused,andtheproposalthatweneedanon-classical"
feministlogic"
islaughable.Butinothercasethemotivationsgoquitedeep.ThankstotheworkofmyformerstudentDr.RobertLane,forexample,wenowunderstandPeirce'
smotivationforhistriadiclogic(theearliest
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