Note: Contains 12 essays originally published in three consecutive issues of Critical inquiry (Summer 1991 to Winter 1992), an essay by Mary Poovey, responses to the essays by various faculty members of the University of Chicago, and replies to the responses by the authors of the essays , Includes bibliographical references and index , Contagious folly : An adventure and its skeptics , For your eyes only : ghost citing , Rejoinder to Françoise Meltzer , Self evidence , Jane Austen and the masturbating girl , Evidences of masturbation , Against epistemology , Belief and resistance : a symmetrical account , Resistance to constructed belief , Circling around, knocking over, playing out , Reasonable evidence of reasonableness , On finding facts , Rejoinder to Cass R. Sunstein , Question of art history , Response to Donald Preziosi , Rejoinder to Joel Snyder , Marvelous facts and miraculous evidence in early modern Europe , Proving a history of evidence , Historical epistemology , Checking the evidence , Carlo Ginzburg and the renewal of historiography , Rejoinder to Arnold I. Davidson , Atlantis and the nations , Using and abusing fiction , How to get beyond myth? , Evidence of experience , Experience and the politics of intellectual inquiry , Rejoinder to Thomas C. Holt , Figures of arithmetic, figures of speech : the discourse of statistics , Response to Mary Poovey , Grand narrative or historical overdetermination? , Two souls in one body , Aristotle re-membered , Aristotle meets incest and innocence , facts and the factitious in natural sciences , Lewontin's evidence (that there isn't any) , Rejoinder to William Wimsatt