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"Ian Hacking is one of the world's leading scholars in the fields of philosophy and history of science. He has made important contributions to areas as diverse as the 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" (Fjelland and Strand).
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Hacking, Ian. Why does Language Matter to Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1975
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His other contributions to philosophy include his work on the philosophy of mathematics (Hacking, 2014), philosophy of statistics, philosophy of logic, inductive logic (Hacking, 1965, 1979, 2001) and natural kinds (Hacking, 1991, 2007a).
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Professor University of Toronto from 1982. In 2001 he was appointed to the Chair of Philosophy and of the History of Scientific Concepts at the prestigious Collège de France. In 2004, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Ian Hacking Lecture
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Hacking, Ian. Representing and Intervening. Cambridge University Press, 1983
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Hacking, Ian. The Social Construction of What. Harvard, 2000
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Hacking, Ian. The Emergence of Probability. Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Throughout his career Hacking has addressed the central philosophical question of scientific realism: whether the theoretical entities postulated by the sciences—from "electron" to "multiple personality disorder"—are real in the same way as everyday objects. (Fjelland and Strand)
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For his fundamental and pioneering contributions to philosophy and the history of social and natural sciences, for the thematic breadth of his research, for his original epistemological perspective centred on a version of scientific realism and defined in contrast with the dominant paradigm in the philosophy of science of the twentieth century.
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Hacking, Ian. The Taming of Chance. Cambridge University Press, 2015
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Hacking, Ian. Logic of Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press, 2016