ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we critically examine the work of Susan Haack, or at least that part of her work that concerns itself with the concept of judgment. Judgmental rationality requires a unitary theory of knowledge and is a corrective to the many disciplinary or domain-specific forms of knowledge in existence. What this suggests is that at the extra-disciplinary level, knowledge can be produced that allows us to make a judgment between different theories about the world – to allow us to say that this knowledge of objects in the world is superior to that knowledge of the same objects. Susan Haack has attempted a reconciliation between different criteria of judgment, in her case the criteria were foundationalism and coherentism. She understood foundationalist criteria as having experiential, rational and logical elements and she called her reconciliation, foundherentism. Making a judgment between different conceptions of and theories about the world is central to any notion of curriculum that we might hold.
