Ian Hacking

Born February 18 1936, Vancouver, Canada. Died May 10, 2023.

Training and professional career

1956 : B. A., University of British Columbia
1957 : B. A., Cambridge University
1961-1962 : Instructor, Princeton University
1962 : M. A., Ph. D., Cambridge University
1962 : Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Virgnia
1962-1964 : Research Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge
1964-1967 : Assistant, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
1967-1969 : Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda
1969-1974 : Lecturer, Cambridge University, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge
1974-1975 : Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
1975-1982 : Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
1982-1983 : Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld
1983 : Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
2000-2006 : Professor at the Collège de France, Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts Chair

Awards and distinctions

1986 : Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1986-1987 : Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
1986-1988 : Izaak Walton Killam Research Fellow
1988-1991 : Tarner Lecturer, Trinity College, Cambridge
1990-1991 : John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow
1991 : Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1995 : Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
1996 : Pierre Janet Prize (for the book Rewriting the Soul)
1999 : Psyche Prize (for the book L'Âme réécrite)
2000 : Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
2001 : LL.D. honoris causa, University of British Columbia
2002 : Killam Prize for the Humanities
2004 : Companion of the Order of Canada
2008 : Giulio Preti Prize, Consiglio Regionale du Regione Toscana
2008 : Gold Medal of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
2009 : Holberg International Memorial Prize
2014 : Balzan Prize

Articles

What will commercial genome-reading do to middle-class conceptions of personal identity?

Hacking I., " What will commercial genome-reading do to middle-class conceptions of personal identity? ", National Humanities Center, 2009.
Philosophers of science and the secrets of nature

Hacking I., " Les philosophes des sciences et les secrets de la nature ", Translation of the speech given by Prof. Hacking at the University of Cordoba, La Lettre du Collège de France, 2007.
Genetics, Biosocial Groups & the Future of Identity

Hacking I., " Genetics, Biosocial Groups & the Future of Identity ", Dædalus, vol. 135, n° 4, 2006, p. 81-95.
Whose body is it?

Hacking I., " Whose body is it? ", London Review of Books, vol. 28, no. 24, 2006.
What is Tom saying to Maureen?

Hacking I., " What is Tom saying to Maureen? ", London Review of Books, vol. 28, no. 9, 2006.
Get knitting

Hacking I., " Get knitting ", London Review of Books, vol. 27, no. 16, 2005.
Words and things, forty years on

Hacking I., " Words and things, forty years on ", For Humanities Center, Columbia University, 2005.
"True", values and science

Hacking I., " "True", values and the sciences ", Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, n° 141-142, 2002, p. 13-20.

Works

Ian Hacking's research into the history of the use of probability and statistics in inductive reasoning

Desrosières A., " Ian Hacking 's research on the history of the uses of probability and statistics in inductive reasoning ", in A. Desrosières, Pour une sociologie historique de la quantification, Presses des Mines, 2008.
Openness to the probable

Hacking I., L'Ouverture au probable, trans. by M. Dufour, Paris, Armand Colin, 2004.
The emergence of probability

Hacking I., The Emergence of Probability, trans. by M. Dufour, Paris, Seuil, 2002.
Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illness

Hacking I., Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illness, University of Virginia Press, 1998. : Les Fous voyageurs, Paris, Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 2002.
Historical Ontology

Hacking I., Historical Ontology, Harvard University Press, 2002.
The Social Construction of What?

Hacking I., The Social Construction of What?, Harvard University Press, 1999, : Entre science et réalité : La construction sociale de quoi ?, Paris, La Découverte, 2001.
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory

Hacking I., Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory, Princeton University Press, 1995, French translation : L'Âme réécrite, Paris, Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 1998.
The purest nominalism. Goodman's enigma: "Vleu" and uses of "Vleu

Hacking I., The purest nominalism.Goodman's enigma :" Vleu " and uses of " Vleu ", l'Éclat, 1993.
The Taming of Chance

Hacking I., The Taming of Chance, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Representing and Intervening

Hacking I., Representing and Intervening, Cambridge University Press, 1983, French translation : Concevoir et expérimenter, Paris, Christian Bourgois, 1989.
Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?

Hacking I., Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?, Cambridge University Press, 1975.
A Concise Introduction to Logic

Hacking I., A Concise Introduction to Logic, New York, Random House, 1972, 339 p.
The Logic of Statistical Inference

Hacking I., The Logic of Statistical Inference, Cambridge University Press, 1965.

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