Ian Hacking

By k.nicoleschickley
  • Birth

    Birth

    Ian MacDougall Hacking, was born February 18,1936 in Vancouver, Canada. One of the leading scholars in Philosophy and History of Science fields. He made multiple important contributions to society. Such as, the concept of probability, philosophy of language, philosophy and history of psychology and psychiatry.
    Idea that Science is a human enterprise.
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    Education

    Hacking attended the University of British Columbia and received his Bachelors in Mathematics and Physics in 1956.
    He then moved to the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelors in Moral Sciences (1958), and proceeded to get his Masters and PhD in 1962.
  • Awarded

    Awarded

    Hacking was rewarded with the Smith's Prize in Mathematics. As well as, the Gregg Bury Prize in Theology.
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    Peterhouse, Cambridge

    Research Fellow
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    University of British Columbia

    Ian started to teach at the University of British Columbia, starting as an assistant professor in 1964 and excelling to associate professor in 1969.

  • 'The Logic of Statistical Inference'

    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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    Makerere University

    Ian Hacking took a position as associate professor at Makerere University College in Uganda.
  • Cambridge Lecturer

    Cambridge Lecturer

  • 'A Concise Introduction to Logic'

    New York; Random House
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    Stanford University

    Hacking relocated to Stanford as Fellow of Centre for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences in 1974. Followed by becoming a professor of philosophy in 1975. Received chair of Stanford's Department of Philosophy in 1980.
  • 'Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy'

    'Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy'

    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

  • 'The Emergence of Probability'

    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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    University of Toronto

    In 1982, Hacking switched his educating career to a separate university, and became University professor at University of Toronto in 1991.
  • 'Representing and Intervening, Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science'

    'Representing and Intervening, Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science'

    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

  • 'The Taming of Chance'

    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • PierreJanet Prize

    PierreJanet Prize

    Hacking received the Pierre Janet Prize.

  • 'Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory'

    Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

  • 'Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illness'

    University of Virginia Press

  • 'The Social Construction of What?'

    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
  • Chairman

    Chairman

    Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts

  • 'An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic'

    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

  • 'Historical Ontology'

    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
  • 'Scientific Reasons'

    'Scientific Reasons'

    Taipei: NTU Press

  • 'Why is There Philosophy of Mathematic at All?'

    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

  • Video

    I chose a clip that goes over Hackings Social Construction
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U2XAJNazik

  • Citations

    Bourguignon, Erika, and Ian Hacking. “Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses.” The Antioch Review, vol. 58, no. 1, Antioch University, 2000, pp. 120–120, doi:10.2307/4613963. Bickle, John. “From Microscopes to Optogenetics: Ian Hacking Vindicated.” Philosophy of Science, vol. 85, no. 5, University of Chicago Press, 2018, pp. 1065–77, doi:10.1086/699760.

  • Citations Part 2

    Montemayor, Carlos. “Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? by Ian Hacking: CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2014, 290 PP., US $25.19, ISBN: 978-1-107-65815-8.” The Mathematical Intelligencer, vol. 38, no. 3, Springer, 2016, pp. 85–90, doi:10.1007/s00283-015-9605-2. Hacking, Ian. “Genetics, Biosocial Groups & the Future of Identity.” Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.), vol. 135, no. 4, The MIT Press, 2006, pp. 81–95, doi:10.1162/daed.2006.135.4.81.