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Born: February 18, 1936 Vancouver, Canada
Schools of thought: Analytic philosophy
Education: University of Cambridge (1962), Trinity College (1958), The University of British Columbia (1956)
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada -
Books
The Logic of Statistical Inference (1965)
The Emergence of Probability (1975)
Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? (1975)
The Taming of Chance (1990)
Scientific Revolutions (1990)
Rewriting the Soul (1995)
Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses (1998)
The Social Construction of What? (1999)
An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic (2001)
Historical Ontology (2002)
Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All? (2014) -
The Emergence of Probability (1975)
Hacking identifies probability with the mathematics of randomness and chance, which did not appear until the Renaissance. From the beginning, he says, probability was dual. It has an epistemic element having to do with degrees of belief, and an ontological aspect, having to do with the performance of randomizing devices like dice and coins in the long run of large numbers of trials. -
The Taming of Chance (1990)
Hacking argues for a nineteenth-century "erosion of determinism," making room for genuine chance.
