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Hacking, Ian MacDougall was born on February 18, 1936 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Son of Harold Eldridge and Margaret Elinore (MacDougall) Hacking.
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This book reveals how statistical law has evolved from basics to higher level through the complicated historical events. It broadly depicts the mind-changing process with rich contents, filling the gap in the study of the cases and standard format in the field of sociology of science.
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This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities. The views of Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Putnam, van Fraassen, and others, are all considered. 'Intervening' presents the first sustained treatment of experimental science for many years and uses it to give a new direction to debates about realism. Hacking illustrates how experimentation often has a life independent of theory. He argues that although the philosophical problems of scientific realism can not be resolved when put in terms of theory alone, a sound philosophy of experiment provides compelling grounds for a realistic attitude. A great many scientific examples are described in both parts of the book, which also includes lucid expositions of recent high energy physics and a remarkable chapter on the microscope in cell biology.
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Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century, although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking presents a philosophical critique of early ideas about probability, induction, and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Hacking invokes a wide intellectual framework involving the growth of science, economics, and the theology of the period. He argues that the transformations that made it possible for probability concepts to emerge have constrained all subsequent development of probability theory and determine the space within which philosophical debate on the subject is still conducted. First published in 1975, this edition includes an introduction that contextualizes his book in light of developing philosophical trends. Ian Hacking is the winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize 2009.
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In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to regard the world as not necessarily deterministic in character. Combining detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breath and verve, The Taming of Chance brings out the relations among philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics and the development of social institutions, and provides a unique and authoritative analysis of the "probabilization" of the Western world.
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(Historical records show that there was no real concept of...)
Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking here presents a philosophical critique of early ideas about probability, induction and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The contemporary debate centres round such figures as Pascal, Leibniz and Jacques Bernoulli. What brought about the change in ideas? The author invokes in his explanation a wider intellectual framework involving the growth of science, economics and the theology of the period.
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Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent linguistic philosophy, and yet know that language has always mattered deeply to philosophy and must in some sense continue to do so. Ian Hacking considers here some dozen case studies in the history of philosophy to show the different ways in which language has been important, and the consequences for the development of the subject. There are chapters on, among others, Hobbes, Berkeley, Russell, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Feyerabend and Davidson. Dr Hacking ends by speculating about the directions in which philosophy and the study of language seem likely to go. The book will provide students with a stimulating, broad survey of problems in the theory of meaning and the development of philosophy, particularly in this century. The topics treated in the philosophy of language are among the central, current concerns of philosophers, and the historical framework makes it possible to introduce concretely and intelligibly all the main theoretical issues.
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Hacking, Ian MacDougall was born on February 18, 1936 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Son of Harold Eldridge and Margaret Elinore (MacDougall) Hacking.
Bachelor, University British Columbia, Vancouver, 1956. Bachelor, Cambridge University, England, 1958. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, 1962.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, England, 1962. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University British Columbia, 2001.
Research fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge U., England, 1962-1964; associate professor, U. B.C., Vancouver, 1964-1969; university lecturer, Cambridge U., 1969-1975; Henry W. Stuart professor, Stanford University, California, 1975-1982; professor, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, since 1982; University professor, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, since 1991.
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(Historical records show that there was no real concept of...)
(Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent ling...)
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Fellow Royal Society of Canada, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Laura Anne Leach, January 4, 1962 (divorced 1969). Children: Jane Frances, Daniel Rachel. Married Judith Polsky, August 14, 1983.