Coherence, consistency, cogency, congruity, cohesiveness, &c: Remain calm! don't go overboard!

New Literary History

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-183

  Haack, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2004.0031     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (1851; New York: Signet Classics / New American Library, 1998), 309
2. Gottlob Frege's Begriffsschrift (1879), along with Bertrand Russell's letter to Frege about the paradox and Frege's reply (1902)
3. F. H. Bradley, Essays on Truth and Reality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1914), 223
4. See A. C. Ewing, Idealism: A Critical Survey (London: Methuen, 1934)
5. Carl G. Hempel, "On the Logical Positiviste' Theory of Truth," Analysis 2 (1935): 49-59
6. Nicholas Rescller, The Coherence Theory of Truth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973), chap. 2
7. The quotation is from a BBC television program called "Masters of the Universe": my source is Michael Shermer, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science (New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2000), 102
8. See my "Realisms and Their Rivals: Recovering Our Innocence," Facta Philosophica 4.1 (2002): 67-88
9. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841) in The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Brooks Atkinson (New York: Modern Library, 1940), 145-69, 152
10. Jacques Barzun, "Dialogue in C-Sharp," in A Word or Two Before You Go . . . (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1986), 115-17, 117
11. Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Evanston, IL: Row and Peterson, 1957)
12. Leon Festinger, Henry W. Reicken, and Stanley Schachter, When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1956)
13. Alison Lurie, Imaginary Friends (New York: Owl Books / Henry Holt and Company, 1967)
14. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903; New York: Modern Library, 1998), 213
15. Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (New York: Ace Books, 1969)
16. I offered some reflections on this dark, tribalist side of solidarity in my "9/11/02," Free Inquiry 23 (2002-3): 9-12
17. See for example Lawrence Bonjour, The Structure of Empirical Knowledge (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985)
18. Donald Davidson, "A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge," in Kant oder Hegel? ed. Dieter Heinrich (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1983), 45-38
19. reprinted in Reading Rorty, ed. Alan Malachowski (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), 120-34
20. Wilfrid Sellars, "Some Reflections on Language-Games," in Science, Perception, and Reality (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963), 321-58
21. See Haack, 'Theories of Knowledge: An Analytic Framework," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 83 (1982-3): 143-57
22. Evidence and Inquiry (note 18 above), chap. 4
23. and Haack, "A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification," first published in Theory of Knowledge: Classic and Contemporary Sources, 2nd ed., ed. Louis Pojman (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998), 283-93
24. and in Epistemology: Contemporary Readings, ed. Michael Huemer (New York: Routledge, 2002), 417-34
25. William Whewell, Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840), in Selected Writings on the History of Science, ed. Yehuda Elkana (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 121-254
26. See Haack, "Clues to the Puzzle of Scientific Evidence," Principia 5, no. 1-2 (2001): 253-81
27. and Haack, Defending Science - Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003), chap. 3
28. For a standard statement of the con textualist position, see David Annlis, "A Contextualist Theory of Epistemic Justification," American Philosophical Quarterly 15, no. 3 (1978): 213-9
29. Rorty, "Science as Solidarity," 46