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Birth
Ian Hacking was born in Vancouver Canada -
Awards
Hacking has gained multiple wards throughout his career such as Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities in the US and Canada. & becoming a member of many prestigious groups including Order of Canada, the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy. -
The Emergence of Probability Reference
Longva, H. M. (2015, March 08). About Ian Hacking. Retrieved from https://www.holbergprisen.no/en/ian-hacking/about-ian-hacking.html -
The Emergence of Probability
A Philosophical study of early ideas about probability. Its an induction and statistical inference. Hacking had sparked a broad interest in history of probability when writing this book. He started by asking questions such as 'Why was there no probability theory in the West before Pascal in the seventeenth century?' -
Representing and Intervening
Ian Hacking wrote this book in 1983 and clearly written the introduction to the philosophy of natural science, which is organized around the central theme and scientific realism . This book incorporates views from Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Putnam, van Fraassen and many others. All of these philosophers are considered to include experimental science. -
Representing and Intervening Reference
Hacking, I. (1983). Representing and intervening: Introductory topics in the philosophy of natural science. Cambridge University Press. -
Professor of Philosophy
He started teaching career at Princeton University in 1960, but then moved to University of VA as an assistant professor working as a research fellow at Cambridge in 1962-1964 and taught as an alma mater. Hacking became a professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1983. He was titled the highest honour the University of Toronto bestows on faculty in 1991. -
Philosophical Work
Hacking shifted his focus to natural sciences to the human science, with the influence of Michel Foucault. Foucault helped Hacking write Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy and The Emergence of Probability. Hacking had proposed that the modern schism between subjective or personalistic probability. -
Ian Hacking Video The Biosocial Being
