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Early In His Career 1936-1962
Born in 1936 in Vancouver and spending his childhood years being a kid, where eventually he ended up getting his first BA degree in Mathematics and Physics at the University of British Columbia then he moved on with bigger ambitions to receive his BA,MA, and PhD, at Cambridge University in Moral Sciences in 1962 -
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Teaching
With Ian's degree's he moved to North America and ended up teaching philosophy at Princeton, Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge. In 1982 Ian moved back to Canada to go to the University of Toronto's Institute of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology. -
1965
Ian wasn't just teaching classes, no as most teachers or professors that I know of have another hobby and that is publishing and writing books. So in 1965 he published the a book called The Logistics of Statistical Inference, which just shows his questions surrounding statistical reasoning. -
In Addition to all of This
Ian Hacking is a well know philosopher and has been around for awhile and with his contributions in the scientific world he has gathered an impressive amount of awards such as, he was the first anglophone to be given a permanent chair at the Collège de France. In addition to the $50,000 Molson Prize, Hacking won the inaugural Killam Prize for the Humanities in 2002 and his work breaks down walls between humanities and science