Ian Hacking

  • Birth of Ian Hacking

    Birth of Ian Hacking
    Ian Hacking was born in Vancouver, Canada. He was a famous philosopher when it came to how he views autism, behaviors, child development, and science of all memory. When he grew up in Canada, he was always interested in different behaviors, which led him to go to Cambridge, the same college that some of the most famous philosophers went college. Ian would naturally go against what most philosophers said when it came to specific theories.
  • Cambridge University.

    Cambridge University.
    Ian earned a Masters' and doctorate in moral sciences from Cambridge University. This university is one of the highest recognized universities that everyone knows about in the scientific field. Some of the most famous philosophers and scientists came from this university during many different periods of life. educational video below. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp7_iB9tsT8)
  • The Logic of Statistical Inference

    The Logic of Statistical Inference
    Ian Hacking, right after he was in Cambridge, he was able to help with the theory of logical, statistical interference, which is when at least two or more variables interfere with one another when it comes to how something developed. Based on theories throughout time, Ian would get two different ideas and compare them against one another. He allowed other philosophers to question this method when it came to how theories were about when it came to the ideas that thought.
  • The Emergency of Probability

    The Emergency of Probability
    When it came to this book, Ian talks about the different concepts of how probability works. It was one of his more famous books because he talks about how when it comes to how likelihood at the time, it developed expeditiously to explain certain things and how they happen. Probability this concept was one of Ian's ideas the most because he thought that made in emergencies. Although, Ian had a lot of different philosophers question this theory.
  • Why does language matter to philosophy

    Why does language matter to philosophy
    Ian Hacking talks about why philosophy matters in this Ian are more concerned not why it matters when it comes to how philosophy applies currently, but he is more concerned about why the language in philosophy confuses people. When it comes to how philosophy talked during his time. Important because he is more concerned about why other philosophers made this hard to understand. Ian, in this book, talks about how certain philosophers make it hard when it comes to the language they use.
  • Representing and Intervening

    Representing and Intervening
    Ian talks about two main parts when it comes to this book. In the first part, he discusses how representing is about how he argues already so-called set theories. Ian questions these theories saying how we truly know that they exist. When it comes to the other part of the book, he talks about how there are entities in philosophy.