Ian hacking

Ian Hacking: 18 Feb 1936 - Present

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    Contributions

    "Ian Hacking is one of the world's leading scholars in the fields of philosophy and history of science. He has made important contributions to areas as diverse as the philosophy and history of physics; the understanding of the concept of probability; the philosophy of language; and the philosophy and history of psychology and psychiatry" (Fjelland and Strand).

  • Why does Language Matter to Philosophy

    Hacking, Ian. Why does Language Matter to Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1975
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    Other Contributions

    His other contributions to philosophy include his work on the philosophy of mathematics (Hacking, 2014), philosophy of statistics, philosophy of logic, inductive logic (Hacking, 1965, 1979, 2001) and natural kinds (Hacking, 1991, 2007a).
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    Professor History

    Professor University of Toronto from 1982. In 2001 he was appointed to the Chair of Philosophy and of the History of Scientific Concepts at the prestigious Collège de France. In 2004, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Ian Hacking Lecture

  • Representing and Intervening

    Hacking, Ian. Representing and Intervening. Cambridge University Press, 1983

  • The Social Construction of What

    Hacking, Ian. The Social Construction of What. Harvard, 2000

  • The Emergence of Probability

    Hacking, Ian. The Emergence of Probability. Cambridge University Press, 2006

  • Awarded Holberg Prize 2009

    Throughout his career Hacking has addressed the central philosophical question of scientific realism: whether the theoretical entities postulated by the sciences—from "electron" to "multiple personality disorder"—are real in the same way as everyday objects. (Fjelland and Strand)

  • 2014 Balzan Prize for Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind

    For his fundamental and pioneering contributions to philosophy and the history of social and natural sciences, for the thematic breadth of his research, for his original epistemological perspective centred on a version of scientific realism and defined in contrast with the dominant paradigm in the philosophy of science of the twentieth century.

  • The Taming of Chance

    Hacking, Ian. The Taming of Chance. Cambridge University Press, 2015

  • Logic of Statistical Inference

    Hacking, Ian. Logic of Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press, 2016