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Vancouver, Canada (Ian Hacking - Balzan Prizewinner Bio-bibliography)
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Earned BA in Mathematics and Physics (Ian Hacking - Balzan Prizewinner Bio-bibliography)
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Earned BA in Moral Sciences Part IIB, 1st Class (Ian Hacking - Balzan Prizewinner Bio-bibliography)
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Earn MA and PhD (Ian Hacking - Balzan Prizewinner Bio-bibliography)
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1962-1964 Fellow, Cambridge Research
1964-1969 Assistant / Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
1967-1969 Associate Professor, University of Uganda
1969 Philosophy Lecturer, University of Cambridge
1974-1980 Fellow at Centre for Advanced Study in Behavioural Sciences, Philosophy Professor, and Chair in Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
1982 Philosophy of Science / Technology Professor, University of Toronto
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Assistant and Associate Professor (Ian Hacking - Balzan Prizewinner Bio-bibliography)
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The foundation of Professor Hacking's work was with his background in statistical probability. His work lead to the now "gold standard" in clinical research, the randomized trials. (Longva)
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Changing the perspective in history of probability, Professor Hacking posed the question on how probability can into being rather than why it was not discovered until later years. This sparked a broad interest in the history of probability. (Longva)
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In his book, Professor Hacking challenged the anglophone philosophy of science and pointed out their self-created crisis of rationality. Hacking says that the "crisis" was largely influenced by Thomas Kuhn's 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolution. In addition, he mentions that Kuhn and his colleges fell victim to the thought that science is simply the production of theories. Hacking poses that science should not only represent the world, but scientists should intervene as well. (Longva)
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University Professor at the University of Toronto (Ian Hacking - Balzan Prizewinner Bio-bibliography)
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Chair, Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts (Ian Hacking - Balzan Prizewinner Bio-bibliography)
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Awarded for is work in the Emergence of Probability. (Longva)
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Received for contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind. (Ian Hacking - Balzan Prizewinner Acceptance Speech) His work led to the Balzan Styles of Reasoning Research Project which allowed emerging scholars to explore styles in a wide range of topics: sociology, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophical psychology, statistical inference, philosophy of mathematics and logic, philosophy of language, and history. (Research Project - Styles of Reasoning)
