Ian Hacking
Ian MacDougall Hacking 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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Vancouver
- Educated at
- University of CambridgeUniversity of British Columbia
- Awards
- 🏆 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art🏆 Balzan Prize🏆 Molson Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Holberg International Memorial Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Casimir Lewy
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 David Papineau📖 Omar W. Nasim
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state."
"Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance."
"Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology."
"To conclude: there are two well-known minor ways in which language has mattered to philosophy. On the one hand there is a belief that if only we produce good definitions, often marking out different s…"
"Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar correspondence with Fermat on games of chance, but also for his conception of decision theory, …"
"Well, he wasn't a relativist. There's a long and complicated story of the rise of a desire for scientific relativism. Part of it may well be simply sort of rage against reason, the fear of the science…"
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Timeline
1936
Born
Birth2023
Died
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