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Born on Feb 18 1936 and grew up in Vancouver British Coloumbia. -
Obtained his BA Masters in mathematics and Physics in 1960S at the University of British Columbia. Then he went on and obtained a Ba, MA, and PHD in Moral Science at Cambridge University -
Ian returned to Canada in 1982 after teaching Philosophy in multiple colleges over the years, These Colleges were Cambridge Oxford, Princeton, and Stanford, and became part of the University of Toronto, where he was able to travel and lecture. -
Two exceptional awards were in 2000 with a permanent chair at the College de France and the Molson Prize and the Killam Prize for the Humanities in 2002 -
Some Major books up until now that he has written
Logic of Statistical Inference 1965
The Emergence of Probability 1975
The Taming of Chance 1990
The Social Construction of What 1999
An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic 2001
Historical Ontology 2002 -
Ian Hacking speaking in front of an Audience as he so often did. Sometimes he was Collegiate and some time he was just a informal person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbKUsAR_8DY&t=604s -
Ian Hacking is a Philosopher and Mathematician who often bridged the gap between the two groups. Citation:
Canadian Encylopedia. “Ian Hacking.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ian-hacking.
