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Birth
Ian MacDougall Hacking was born in Vancouver, BC on Feb 18, 1936 -
Why does language matter to philosophy?
In this book Ian Hacking does a major important analysis of the effects of language on philosophy and the possible directions that may come to be. -
Emergence of Probability
Ian Hacking writes this paper analyzing the effects of probability and its emergence in its early years and how historically we can see an effect of the early cultures having little concept of this idea. -
Taming of Chance
In this Book Ian Hacking writes further on the concept of chance and probability offering ways to interpret statistical data and the possibility of their relativistic importance. -
Killiam Prize
Ian Hacking recieves the first Killiam Prize for the Humanities and his work on shifting focus towards the much more practical and realistic side of science rather than the theoretical. -
Why is there Philosophy of Mathematics at All?
In Ian Hacking's latest book titled Why is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All? he goes into a deep analysis of why mathematics provokes philosophical thought and why or why not this is either helpful or even necessary. -
Scientific Truth
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFIg0vNKkJc] This is a lecture where Ian Hacking speaks on truth and sciences and their relative importance in their respective times. -
As of today He is still living
Ian Hacking is still living and has been marked as a great contributor of modern science philosophy.