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Birth / Overview
Ian Hacking is a Canadian philosopher born in Vancouver, Canada on February 18, 1936, making him 84 years old. Ian Hacking is still alive. Ian hacking was primarily an analytic scientific philosopher, however, has changed gears in his latter career to understand if historical or social conditions match with scientific concepts. -
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Ian Hacking
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The Emergence of Probability
The first of two of Hacking’s major works investigates the history of probability and invites the reader to follow along with Hacking’s modern concepts. Hacking links the concepts to consciousness and delves deeper into the topic within his work. -
Overview 2
Hacking is progressive. Hacking was trained in an old historic way through education and shifted gears at some point in his philosophical career and decided to take everything he knew and test it from a holistic perspective, applying logic in addition to new concepts. Hacking is open minded. -
The Taming of Chance
Hacking used the example of Charles Sanders pierce and his embracing of tychism. Pierce took to Charles Darwin’s concepts, and ended an argument on the topic stating “You have to glimpse the almost innumerable ways in which his world had become constructed out of probabilities, just like ours” (Information Philosopher) -
Hacking's Bibliography
Hacking has over 15 works that can be sited and found at the reference here: (International Balzan Prize Foundation) -
The Scientific Truth
Youtube Video of Ian Hacking explaining thinking outside of the box depending on the type of Science being utilized, found at YouTube.
