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The Emergence of Probability
While Hacking has written many works, I am only including a few of them in this timeline. This particular book explores the historical absence of the concept of probability until the mid-seventeenth century and tries to understand from a philosophical standpoint why that is.
Hacking, Ian. The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. Kiribati, Cambridge University Press, 1975. -
Representing and Intervening, Introducing Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science
Through the influence of Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, and Paul Feyerabend, Hacking wrote this book to further explain the relationship between the philosophy of natural science and the theme of scientific realism.
Hacking, Ian. Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. United States, Cambridge University Press, 1983. -
The Social Construction of What?
In this book, Hacking tackles the questions surrounding the hows and whats of social constructs.
Hacking, Ian. The Social Construction of What?. United Kingdom, Harvard University Press, 2000. -
Proof, Truth, Hands, and Minds - A Lecture by Ian Hacking
This video is a lecture by Ian Hacking at the University of California Berkeley
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Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics at All?
Here, Ian Hacking questions the world of mathematics from a philosophical view. Asking questions like, "what makes mathematics mathematics?" and wondering the evolution of proofs and their experimentation.
Hacking, Ian. Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All?. United States, Cambridge University Press, 2014.