Major Publications:
The Logic of Statistical Inference (1965); The Emergence of Probability (1975); Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? (1975); Representing and Intervening, Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1983; The Taming of Chance (1990); Scientific Revolutions (1990); Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory (1995); Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illness (1998); The Social Construction of What? (1999); An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic (2001); Historical Ontology (2002)
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Accolades:
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the British Academy, and of the Royal Society of Canada. Ian Hacking was named a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2004.
In 2000, Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the Collège de France, the first Anglophone to be elected to a permanent chair in the Collège's history. In 2004, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Visiting professor at University of California, Santa Cruz for the Winters of 2008 and 2009. On August 25, 2009 Hacking was named winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize, a Norwegian award for scholarly work in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology.[2] Hacking was chosen for his work on how statistics and the theory of probability have shaped society. In 2003, he gave the Sigmund H Danziger Jr Memorial lecture The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities in 2003. In 2010, he gave the René Descartes Lectures at the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS).007. In 2010, Hacking also gave the Howison lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on the topic of mathematics and its sources in human behavior ('Proof, Truth, Hands and Mind').
