Ian MacDougall Hacking

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  • Born

    In Vancouver, Canada

  • Earned Degree from University of British Columbia

  • Earned a Degree from University of Cambridge

  • Was a teacher at Princeton

  • Earned a PHD from Cambridge

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    Working in research at Cambridge

  • Taught at University of Virgina

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    Became a professor at University of British Columbia

  • Published "The Logic of Statical Inference"

  • Became a lecturer at Cambridge

  • was a lecturer at Stanford University

  • Published "The Emergence of Probability" and "Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy"

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    Worked in the research lab for Center for Interdisciplinary Research

  • Became a professor of Philosophy @ University of Toronto

  • Published "The Taming of Chance" and "Scientific Revolutions"

  • Became The University Professor (The highest honor) at The University of Toronto

  • Published "Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Science of Memory"

  • Published "Mad Travelers: Reflection on the Reality of Transient Mental Illness"

  • Published "The Social Construction of What?"

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    Held Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concept at the Scientific Concepts at the College de France

  • Published "An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic"

  • Published "Historical Ontology"

  • Awarded the Killam Prize

  • Gave the Sigmund H. Daniger Jr Memorial Lecture in the Humanities

  • Made a Companion of the Order of Canada

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    Taught at University of California; Santa Cruz

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    Appointed visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize

  • Gave the Howison Lecture at the University of California, Berkly on mathematics and its source in human behavior

    Proof, Truth, Hands and Mind was the title of the Lecture

  • Gave the Rene Descartes Lecture at the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science

  • Ended his teaching career while at University of Cape Town

  • Awarded the Austrian Decoration of Science and Art

  • Published "Why is there Philosophy of Mathematics at All?"

  • Award the Balzan Prize