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Ian Hacking was born Febuary 18, 1936 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Hacking attended the University of British Colombia where he earned his matheematics nad physics. Then attended Cambridge University where he earned his BA,MA, and Ph.D. in Moral science.
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Considered to be among the very top rank of philosophers in the world,Ian Hacking published "The Logic of Statistical Inference" in 1965. "Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interprtetation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption." -Ian Hacking
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Hacking taught philosophy at different Universities including Cambridge, Oxford, Princeton, and Stanford. Ian retunred to Canada in 1982, joining the University of Toronto's institute for the history and Philosohy of Science and technology.
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In 2000, he was the first anglophone to be given a permanent chair at the Collège de France.
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In addition to the $50,000 Molson Prize, Hacking won the inaugural Killam Prize for the Humanities in 2002.
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Ian Hacking was named a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2004.
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Influenced by debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend and others, Hacking is known for bringing a historical approach to the philosophy of science. Hacking was known for questioning and debating, a true philosipher he helped see things in new wasy and challenge others view points. Ian Hacking is still alive today.
References:
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ian-hacking
http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers/hacking/
