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Who is He?
Ian Hacking, born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1936, is a modern day philosopher who has made many contributions for areas of philosophy and history of physics; the understanding of the concept of probability; the philosophy of language; and the philosophy and history of psychology and psychiatry.
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Education
During the years of 1956 to 1962, Ian Hacking spent these years studying at the university of British Columbia and Cambridge to finish off his PHD at Cambridge. -
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This Guy wants to Teach
Hacking taught for many years and at many different colleges. He first started off at the University of Virginia to Stanford university in 1974 where there he went to the College de France and finished his career at the University of Cape Town. During his years teaching at these Universities, Hacking had many notable achievements as a professor. -
The Emergence of Probability
Described as Ground Breaking, Hacking claims the non-discovery of an intellectual object in the West before Pascal needs explanation.
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Science of Humanities
Hacking once said, "I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world of the interaction between the physical science and the social sciences." This curiosity lead him to write a book known as "The Social construction of What?" written in 1999. This book examines the topic of social construction and provides a balanced overview of the debates, sometimes called "the science wars," between scientists and constructionists. -
A Small Reward for Some of his Greatest Achievements
Ian Hacking is awarded the Holberg Prize Laureate for his Transformative contributions through his broad works in philosophy of Science/Language and probability theorems.
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