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Dr. Ian Hacking is known for his historical approach to the Philosophy of Science.
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Ian Hacking was born on February 18, 1936 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Earned an Undergraduate Degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of British Columbia.
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Ian Hacking began teaching at Princeton University
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About a year after he began teaching at Princeton, Hacking left to begin working at the University of Virginia. From here, he began working as a Research Fellow at Cambridge University and, ultimately, assumed roles as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor.
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He went on to earn an Undergraduate, Graduate, and Doctoral degree in Moral Sciences from the University of Cambridge
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Published The Logic of Statistical Interference
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He worked as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences until 1974, then began teaching Philosophy as a Professor in 1975.
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In 1975, Hacking published two books, The Emergence of Probability and Why does Language Matter to Philosophy
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Hacking began teaching Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
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Shortly after starting work at the University of Toronto, he published another book, Representing and Intervening, Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural.
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From 1990 through 2001, Hacking published six books:
-The Taming of Chance and Scientific Revolutions
-Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personalities and the Sciences of Memory
-Mad Travelers: Reflections n the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses
-The Social Construction of What?
-An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic
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in 2002,he was awarded the first Killam Prize for Humanities
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From 2002 through 2014, Ian Hacking was received several prestigious awards and achievements:
-first Killam Prize for Humanities
-Companion of the Order of Canada
-Holberg International Memorial Prize
-the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
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Dr. Ian Hacking retired from teaching in 2011.
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Why is there Philosophy of Mathematics at all? was published in 2014.
