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Ian MacDougall Hacking

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  • Birthdate

    Birth place: Vancouver, British Columbia
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    College Career

    schools attended: University of British Columbia, University of Cambridge, Trinity College, PHD earned at Cambridge

  • Entity Realism

    Ian believed entity realism does not commit itself to judgments concerning the truth of scientific theories. He brought a Historical approach to the philosophy of science.
  • the Fourth edition of (Against Method)

    the Fourth edition of (Against Method)

    looks at the way the philosophy of science has consistently overemphasized practice over method, and considers the possibility that anarchism could replace rationalism in the theory of knowledge.