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Undergraduate
Ian Hacking earned undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia. -
PhD
Ian earned his PhD at Cambridge -
"The Emergence of Probability."
Ian Hacking released “The Emergence of Probability”. A book that heavily focuses on numbers, specifically probability, statistics, and induction. It highlights the relevance of mathematical, philosophical, scientific, and sociological aspects within soft sciences and how the relevancy in aspects were increasingly questioned prior to his work. -
Entity Realism
Entity Realism was introduced by Ian Hacking and Nancy Cartwright. Entity Realism is a position that believes scientific theories are true and can only be considered true if and only if scientists refer to phenomena that can be routinely used to create effects and have the means to investigate it. -
"Rewriting the Soul" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFJUJCtY7Y
"Rewriting the Soul" focuses on personalities, and those that suffer from multiple personalities. Hacking dives deep into his work on social aspects of multiple personality disorder and how it affects behaviors. His studies tie an older way of thinking and it incorporates the stresses of everyday life today and how it affects the social aspects of today's society. Ian gives some insight as to why younger generations have a social disconnect in today’s technology-based environments. -
Balzan Prize for Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
Ian was awarded the Balzan Prize for Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to philosophy and the history of social and natural sciences. He was also awarded for the thematic breadth of his research, for his original epistemological perspective centered on a version of scientific realism and defined in contrast with the dominant paradigm in the philosophy of science of the twentieth century.
