Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking (born 1936) in Vancouver is a philosopher operating in the fields of philosophy of science and philosophy of language.

Selected works

• The Logic of Statistical Inference (1965)
• The Emergence of Probability (1975)
• Representing and Intervening (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)
• Probability and Inductive Logic (2001)
• Historical Ontology (2002)