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Life
Born in Canada and still alive today. He is current 85 years old. He has won many awards and prizes as well as being a part of many distinguishes scientific groups. -
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College Education
He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia as well as the University of Cambridge. -
Instructor
He was an instructor at Princeton for only one year before moving to the University of Virginia. -
College dr France
In 2000, he was the first anglophone ever elected to the Collège de France. Anglophone is a large word for English speaking person. -
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College de France
Ian Hacking held the Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France from the year 2000 to 2006. -
Killiam Prize
In 2002 Ian Hacking won the Killiam Prize for Humanities in science. This award came with 100,000 as well. -
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Balzan Prize
In 2014 he was awarded the Balzan Prize. This prize comes with 800,000 dollars. This was again for his contributions in his field -
Accomplishments
As of 2015 Ian Hacking has written 14 books and upwards of 300 papers in the field of Philosophy. Works:
-Hacking, I. (1965). Logic of Statistical Inference. Cambridge Univ Pr. -Hacking, I. (2006). The emergence of probability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -Hacking, I. (2014). Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -
Accomplishments part 2
His work in realism is called Entity Realism. His influencers include Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend along with many more. He even has an introduction in the anniversary reprints of Kuhn's and Feyerabend's books. His type of realism pushes for a realistic view of answers to the scientific issues and questions hypothesized by mature sciences while staying skeptical towards existing theories. -
Quotes
-“The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.”
― Ian Hacking, An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic
-“Each of us becomes a new person as we redescribe the past.”
― Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
