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Hackings Birth
Ian Hacking was born Feb 18th, 1936 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. -
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Hackings Education
Hacking went to college at the University of British Columbia in 1956 and to the University of Cambridge in 1958 where he earned his Bachelors in Mathematics and Physics. Hacking earned his PhD at Cambridge as well in Moral Sciences where he later developed a specialty in Philosophy of Science. -
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Hackings Teaching Career 1
Hacking started his teaching career at Princeton University in 1960 but a year later moved to the University of Virginia as an assistant professor. Later he worked as a research assistant at Cambridge from 1962 to 1964, he taught at his alma mater, UBC, first as an assistant professor and then as an associate professor from 1964 to 1969. He became a lecturer at Cambridge in 1969 before moving over to Stanford in 1974. -
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Hackings Teaching Career 2
After teaching for several years at Stanford, he spent a year at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld, Germany, from 1982 to 1983. Hacking was promoted to Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1983.Which is the highest honor the University of Toronto gives to faculty members. From 2000 to 2006, he held the Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the College de France. -
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Hackings Teaching Career 3
Hacking was then a professor of philosophy at UC Santa Cruz, from 2008 to 2010. He concluded his teaching career in 2011 as a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town. -
Ian Hackings Probable Reasoning and Its Novelties
Hacking, Ian. (2015). Probable Reasoning and Its Novelties. 10.1007/978-3-319-14553-2_12.