ABSTRACT
More than any other living philosopher, Susan Haack represents the spirit of classical pragmatism. Influenced especially by Peirce, but also by James, Dewey, and other classical pragmatists, Haack’s pragmatism is both realist—it assumes that the world is real, i.e., independent of how any individual believes it to be—and worldly—it depends on experience of the variety of things that exist in the one real world. This chapter canvasses some of Haack’s most important contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of science, the ethics of inquiry, and the philosophy of law.
