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Ian Hacking Quote
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Early Career
Professor Ian Hacking's early work centered around probability and logic as well as the Philosophy of Mathematics. However, he branched out quickly and began and interesting philosophical effort to connect the Sciences and Humanities. By providing historical anecdotes of various human mental illnesses, Professor Hacking has been able to bridge the often wide gap between the two branches of learning. (Grandy) -
Impact on Philosophy of Science
Throughout his career, Dr. Hacking's interest and philosophical efforts were to develop a bridge between the natural and social sciences. The importance of his efforts were identified by the Holberg Prize Committee in their 2014 Citation quoted below: "Ian Hacking’s work reverberates throughout the humanities and social sciences, reframing our understanding of the interactions between the natural and the social worlds." (Holbergprisen) -
Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?
Hacking, Ian. Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?. Cambridge University Press, 1975. -
The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference.
Hacking, Ian. The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press, 1975. -
Logic of Statistical Inference
Hacking, Ian. Logic of Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press, 1976. -
Scientific Revolutions
A collection of papers by various Philosophers of Science including Paul Feyerabend, Ian Hacking, T.S. Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Laurens Laudan, Karl Popper, Hilary Putnam, and Dudley Shapere. Professor Hacking is credited as editor and provides an introductory message. Hacking, Ian (ed.). Scientific Revolutions. Oxford University Press, 1981. -
Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science.
Hacking, Ian. Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. Cambridge University Press, 1983. -
The Emergence of Probability
Hacking, Ian. The Emergence of Probability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. -
Rewriting the Soul Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
Hacking, Ian. Rewriting the Soul Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory. Course Book, Princeton University Press, 1998, doi:10.1515/9781400821686. -
The Social Construction of What?
Hacking, Ian. The Social Construction of What?. Harvard University Press, 1999. -
The Taming of Chance
Hacking, Ian. The Taming of Chance. Cambridge University Press, 1999. -
Receives Permanent Chair at College de France
First anglophone to receive permanent chair at College de France -
An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic
Hacking, Ian. An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic. Cambridge University Press, 2001. -
Historical Ontology
Hacking, Ian. Historical Ontology. Harvard University Press, 2002. -
Awarded Killam Prize
Awarded the inaugural Killam Prize. (Grandy) -
Awarded Molson Prize
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Named Companion to Order of Canada
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Ian Hacking Reads "Kinds of People" at the British Academy
Dr. Hackings presents his lecture of "Kinds of People" to the British Academy. In the paper, Dr. Hackings describes his ideas about Looping of People where classifications of people, particularly when discussing various disorders, has the unfortunate effect of causing people to react to the classifications themselves, thereby adjusting those peoples actions. The adjustment of actions result in new classifications creating a looping effect. (Hacking, "Kinds of People.") -
Awarded the Holburg International Memorial Prize
University of Bergen. “Winner 2009: Ian Hacking”. About UIB, 24 November 2009. https://www.uib.no/en/about/75261/winner-2009-ian-hacking. Accessed 04 June 2021. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
Professor Hacking provides the forward for the re-publishing of Thomas Kuhn's landmark book and ideas about Scientific Revolutions. Dr. Hacking provides some examples of how Kuhn's thoughts are still applicable to today's scientific thought and research. (The Uni9versity of Chicago Press). Kuhn, Thomas S. & Hacking, Ian. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition. University of Chicago Press, 2012. -
Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All?
Hacking, Ian. Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All?. Cambridge University Press, 2014. -
Awarded the Balzan Prize
Dr. Hacking awarded the Balzan Award for Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind.
"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." (Balzan.org) -
Professor Hacking on Scientific Truth
Professor Hacking differentiates Scientific Truth within the Natural Sciences discussing the differences between the various scientific fields as well as how they differ in their definition of truth. INTELECOM. "Scientific Truth", 17 April 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFIg0vNKkJc -
Professor Hacking discusses Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend
One of several free commentaries provided by INTELECOM, a free educational youtube.com provider based in California. Professor Hacking goes into detail discussing the differences between how Feyerabend and Kuhn viewed science philosophically. INTELECOM. "Feyerabend and Kuhn", 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiNm5Ec-GuE&list=PL5T8pRdS91Y92dpDGKYDPlm5bRjP3S09V&index=2. Accessed 04 June 2021. -
References 2
Hacking, Ian. “Ian Hacking”. www.ianhacking.com, 25 January 2013. Archive.today. https://archive.is/20130125172125/http://www.ianhacking.com/. Accessed 04 June 2021. Holbergprisen. "Ian Hacking", 2021. https://holbergprisen.no/en/holberg-prize/prize-winners/ian-hacking. Accessed 04 June 2021. Information Philosopher Website. “Ian Hacking”, N.D.
https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers/hacking/. Accessed 04 June 2021. -
References 3
Sualci Quotes. “Ian Hacking Quotes”, 2021. https://www.quotationof.com/ian-hacking.html. Accessed 04 June 2021. University of Bergen. “Winner 2009: Ian Hacking”. About UIB, 24 November 2009. https://www.uib.no/en/about/75261/winner-2009-ian-hacking. Accessed 04 June 2021. The University of Chicago Press. “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – 50th Anniversary Edition”, 2012. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo13179781.html. Accessed 04 June 2021. -
References 1
Balzan.org. "Ian Hacking". International Balzan Prize Foundation, 2014. https://www.balzan.org/en/prizewinners/ian-hacking. Accessed 04 June 2021. Grandy, Karen. "Ian Hacking". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 16 December 2013, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ian-hacking. Accessed 04 June 2021. Hacking, Ian. "Kinds of People". British Academy Lecture, 2007. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2043/pba151p285.pdf. Accessed 04 June 2021.