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ChenBo,SusanHaack

ABSTRACTIn2002,atUniversityofMiami,USA,ChenBomadeanlonginterviewwithSusanHaackwhoisaneminentlogician-philosopherintheworld.Inthisinterview,theytalkedaboutHaack’sintellectualbackground,andherstudiesinphilosophyoflogic,epistemology,metaphysics,pragmatism,philosophyofscience,post-moderntrends,especiallyHaack’sownphilosophy,e.g,logicalpluralism,foundherentism,criticalcommon-sensism,innocentrealism.

KEYWORDSrevisabilityoflogic,logicalpluralism,foundherentism,pragmatism,criticalcommon-sensism,innocentrealism.

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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;

andbegantoteachandpublishontheinteractionsofscience