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This literature discussed the importance of language in Philosophy. Hacking illustrated the different ways that language has mattered in philosophy. Hacking, Ian. Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? Cambridge University Press, 1975. -
Hacking discusses theoretical concepts dealing with multiple personality disorder. Hacking, Ian. Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory. Diane Pub Co, 2003. -
In this article authored by Ian Hackings, he discusses the phenomenon that people have to understand each other without inference. But people diagnosed with autism seem to lack this ability. Hacking, Ian. “Autistic autobiography.” Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences vol. 364,1522 (2009): 1467-73. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0329 -
Hacking discusses a very interesting medical condition known as fugue. This variation of insanity in simplest form would be someone traveling away from their home and forgetting who they are. Hacking, Ian. Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses. Harvard Univ. Press, 2006.