Ian hacking

Ian Hacking

By SkylarForrester

  • Born

    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; understanding of the concept of probability; the philosophy of langue; and the philosophy and history of psychology and psychiatry. Science.Longva, H. M. (2015, March 08). About Ian Hacking. Retrieved from https://www.holbergprisen.no/en/ian-hacking/about-ian-hacking.html

  • Earned undergraduate degrees from University of British Columbia

  • Earned undergraduate degrees from University of Cambridge

  • Started Teaching Career

    Ian Hacking started his teaching career as an instructor at the Princeton University in 1960 after a year he moved to the University of Virginia as an assistant professor.

  • Earned PhD at the University of Cambridge

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    Research Fellow

    Hacking worked as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge from 1962 to 1964.

  • Published The Emergence of Probability

    Published The Emergence of Probability
    Ian Hacking presents a philosophical critique of early ideas of probability, induction and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The contemporary debate centers around such figures as Pascal, Leibniz, and Jacques Bernoulli. Hacking tackles the concept of probability, dice is used a great example in the chance that the dice will land on a certain number.

  • Hacking Promoted

    During his time at the University of Toronto, Ian Hacking received a promotion to Professor of Philosophy.

  • Published The Taming of Chance

    Published The Taming of Chance
    Ian Hacking argues for a for a nineteenth-century. Erosion of determinism making room for genuine chance. This made little immediate difference to anyone, few were aware of it. However this book can be described as groundbreaking. Ian Hacking continued to study the origins and development of certain characteristics modes of contemporary thought undertaken in his previous novel.

  • Promoted to University Professor

    Hacking received a promotion to University Professor, which is the highest honor the University of Toronto bestows on faculty.

  • Awarded Balzan Prize

    In 2014 Ian Hacking was awarded with the Balzan Prize, and $800,000. He has written 14 books and more than 300 papers and reviews on a wide range of subjects. The international Balzan Prize Foundation gave this award from Hackings work on the fundamental and pioneering contributions to philosophy and the history of social and natural science. For the thematic breath of his research, for his original epistemological perspective centered on a version of scientific realism.

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