Ian MacDougall Hacking was a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science.
13 Facts About Ian Hacking
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Ian Hacking became a lecturer at Cambridge in 1969 before shifting to Stanford University in 1974.
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Ian Hacking was promoted to Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1983 and University Professor, the highest honour the University of Toronto bestows on faculty, in 1991.
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Ian Hacking is the first Anglophone to be elected to a permanent chair in the College's history.
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Ian Hacking concluded his teaching career in 2011 as a visiting professor at the University of Cape Town.
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Ian Hacking is sometimes described as a member of the "Stanford School" in philosophy of science, a group that includes John Dupre, Nancy Cartwright and Peter Galison.
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Ian Hacking has been influential in directing attention to the experimental and even engineering practices of science, and their relative autonomy from theory.
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In Mad Travelers Ian Hacking provided a historical account of the effects of a medical condition known as fugue in the late 1890s.
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In 2002, Ian Hacking was awarded the first Killam Prize for the Humanities, Canada's most distinguished award for outstanding career achievements.
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Ian Hacking was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2004.
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Ian Hacking was appointed visiting professor at University of California, Santa Cruz for the Winters of 2008 and 2009.
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Ian Hacking gave the Howison lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on the topic of mathematics and its sources in human behavior in 2010.
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In 2012, Hacking was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, and in 2014 he was awarded the Balzan Prize.