Philosopher

Ian Hacking

Overview

Ian MacDougall Hacking (February 18, 1936 – May 10, 2023) was a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and was a member of many prestigious groups, including the Order of Canada, the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.

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Philosophers who discussed Ian Hacking

• David Papineau
• Charles Babbage
• Paul Feyerabend
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Hilary Putnam

Ideas Ian Hacking discusses

• G. E. Moore
• Philosophy
• Analytic philosophy
• Transcendence (philosophy)
• Nominalism
• Princeton University
• Thomas Kuhn
• University of Cambridge
• British Academy
• Stanford University
• Collège de France
• The New York Times
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Trinity College, Cambridge
• University of California, Berkeley
• Vancouver
• Philosophy of science
• Imre Lakatos
• The Nation
• Michel Foucault
• Paul Feyerabend
• Episteme
• University of Cape Town
• University of Toronto

Place in the tradition

Part of Nominalism.

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