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Ian Hacking (18 Feb 1936-Present)

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  • Ian Hacking (18 Feb 1936-Present) Begins Teaching Career

    Ian Hacking (18 Feb 1936-Present) Begins Teaching Career
    Hacking started his teaching career as an instructor at Princeton University in 1960 but, after just one year, moved to the University of Virginia as an assistant professor. After working as a research fellow at Cambridge from 1962 to 1964, he taught at his alma mater, UBC, first as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor from 1964 to 1969.

  • Ian Hacking (18 Feb 1936-Present) Publishes "The Emergence of Probability"

    Ian Hacking (18 Feb 1936-Present) Publishes "The Emergence of Probability"
    In this publication, Hacking proposed that the modern schism between subjective or personalistic probability, and the long-run frequency interpretation, emerged in the early modern era as an epistemological "break" involving two incompatible models of uncertainty and chance.
    Ref: Published August 31st 1984 by Cambridge University Press (first published April 24th 1975)
    The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

  • Ian Hacking (18 Feb 1936-Present) Promoted to Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto

    Ian Hacking (18 Feb 1936-Present) Promoted to Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto
    Hacking was promoted to Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1983 and University Professor, the highest honour the University of Toronto bestows on faculty, in 1991. From 2000 to 2006, he held the Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France. Hacking is the first Anglophone to be elected to a permanent chair in the Collège's history.

  • Ian Hacking (18 Feb 1936-Present) Publishes "Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses"

    Ian Hacking (18 Feb 1936-Present) Publishes "Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses"
    In this book, Hacking provides an historical account of a medical condition that used to be known as fugue or mad travel. Fugue emerged as ‘a specific, diagnosable type of insanity' in late nineteenth century France and then spread to Italy, Germany and Russia.
    Citations: Hacking, Ian. 1998. Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Illnesses.University Press of Virginia: Charlottesville and London.

  • Ian Hacking (18 Feb 1936-Present) Educational Video

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiNm5Ec-GuE