Ian Hacking earned a B.A. at the University of British Columbia and a second B.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy at Cambridge University. He has taught at Cambridge and Oxford, and at Stanford University, where he chaired the Philosophy Department. Since 1982 he has been at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, although he lectures all over the world. In 2000 was elected to a chair in Philosophy and the History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France, Paris. His books include The Emergence of Probability (1975), The Social Construction of What? (1999), Mad Travelers (1998) and Rewriting the Soul (1995). The Modern Library selected The Taming of Chance, Hacking’s cultural history of probability, as one of the top 100 works of non-fiction in the 20th century.
Author of the following papers featured on interdisciplines.org:
· The Complacent Disciplinarian
· Disciplinaire et satisfait
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