Susan Haack

Susan Haack
Susan Haack at the University of Miami, Spring 2005
Born	1945 England
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Warwick University of Miami
Main interests	Philosophy of science Philosophy of logic Epistemology Pragmatism Charles Sanders Peirce
Notable ideas	Foundherentism
Influences Francis Bacon, W.V.O. Quine, C.S. Peirce, Frank P. Ramsey
Influenced Luciano Floridi, John Zeis

Susan Haack (born 1945) is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law at the University of Miami. She has written on logic, the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. Her pragmatism follows that of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Haack is a graduate of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge (B.A., M.A., B.Phil, Oxford; Ph.D., Cambridge). She was elected into Phi Beta Kappa as an honorary member. At Oxford, she studied at St. Hilda's College, where her first philosophy teacher was Jean Austin, the widow of J. L. Austin. As an undergraduate, she took Politics, Philosophy and Economics and said of her taste for philosophy: "initially, the 'politics' part that most appealed to me. But somewhere down the line, despite encouragement from my politics tutor to pursue that subject, philosophy took over."

She studied Plato with Gilbert Ryle and logic with Michael Dummett. David Pears supervised her B.Phil. dissertation on ambiguity. At Cambridge, she wrote her PhD under the supervision of Timothy Smiley. She held the positions of Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge and professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick before taking her current position at the University of Miami.

Haack has said of her career that she is "very independent":