Ian Hacking

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Philosophical work

Thomas Kuhn Imre Lakatos Paul Feyerabend Against Method The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Life and career

Vancouver University of British Columbia University of Cambridge Trinity College Casimir Lewy

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Selected works

ISBN Scientific Revolutions Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory Pickering, Andrew Doi

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Awards and lectures

Companion of the Order of Canada University of California, Santa Cruz Holberg International Memorial Prize University of California, Berkeley Austrian Decoration for Science and Art

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Alma mater: University of British Columbia Trinity College, Cambridge
Born: Ian MacDougall Hacking (1936-02-18)February 18, 1936 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Children: 3
Died: May 10, 2023(2023-05-10) (aged 87) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Doctoral advisor: Casimir Lewy
Doctoral students: David Papineau

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Life and career

Vancouver
University of British Columbia
University of Cambridge
Trinity College Trinity College, Cambridge
Casimir Lewy
G. E. Moore
Princeton University
University of Virginia
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Stanford University
Center for Interdisciplinary Research
Bielefeld
University of Toronto
Collège de France
UC Santa Cruz
University of Cape Town
Nancy Cartwright Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)

Philosophical work

Thomas Kuhn
Imre Lakatos
Paul Feyerabend
Against Method
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Stanford School
John Dupré
Peter Galison
Analytic philosopher
Entity realism
Michel Foucault
The Emergence of Probability The Emergence of Probability?action=edit&redlink=1
Epistemological
Knowledge systems Episteme
The Taming of Chance
Nominalism
Mad Travelers Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses
Fugue Fugue state
A. C. Crombie Alistair Cameron Crombie

Awards and lectures

Selected works

ISBN ISBN (identifier)
Scientific Revolutions Scientific Revolutions (Ian Hacking)?action=edit&redlink=1
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
Pickering, Andrew Andrew Pickering
Doi Doi (identifier)
S2CID S2CID (identifier)
Wayback Machine
The Nation
ISSN ISSN (identifier)

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Spouses · 3

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Alma mater · 1

Ian Hacking → University of British Columbia Trinity College, Cambridge

Born · 1

Ian Hacking → Ian MacDougall Hacking (1936-02-18)February 18, 1936 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Children · 1

Ian Hacking → 3

Died · 1

Ian Hacking → May 10, 2023(2023-05-10) (aged 87) Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Doctoral advisor · 1

Ian Hacking → Casimir Lewy

Doctoral students · 1

Ian Hacking → David Papineau

Era · 1

Ian Hacking → 20th-century philosophy

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Ian Hacking	Born	Ian MacDougall Hacking (1936-02-18)February 18, 1936 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	1.00	infobox
Ian Hacking	Children	3	1.00	infobox
Ian Hacking	Died	May 10, 2023(2023-05-10) (aged 87) Toronto, Ontario, Canada	1.00	infobox
Ian Hacking	Doctoral advisor	Casimir Lewy	1.00	infobox
Ian Hacking	Doctoral students	David Papineau	1.00	infobox
Ian Hacking	Era	20th-century philosophy	1.00	infobox
Ian Hacking	Main interests	Philosophy of science Philosophy of statistics	1.00	infobox
Ian Hacking	Notable ideas	Entity realism Historical ontology (transcendental nominalism)	1.00	infobox
Ian Hacking	Region	Western philosophy	1.00	infobox
Ian Hacking	School	Analytic philosophy	1.00	infobox
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Ian Hacking	Spouses	Nancy Cartwright (divorced)	1.00	infobox
Ian Hacking	Spouses	Judith Baker (died 2014)	1.00	infobox

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