Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking , DC (1936 with Vancouver, Colombia-British -) is a Canadian Philosophe specialist in the Philosophie of sciences.

Appointed professor with the University of Toronto in 1982, it is titular since 2001 of the pulpit of philosophy and history of the scientific concepts to the Collège de France. It obtained a Bourse Killam in 1986.

Hacking is interested in the styles of scientific reasoning:

the style of the Laboratoire (born at the XVIIe century) which it studies in Concevoir and to try out . For Hacking, the philosophy of sciences, far from confining itself with the theories which represent the world, must also analyze the scientific practices which transform it.
Statistical S and the Probability S (born at the XIXe century) whose Hacking shows the increasing place in sciences, which give up in many disciplines the Déterminisme, and in the daily life ( the Emergence of the probability ).
the Classification: in Social sciences, the fact of classifying the individuals influences their behavior and modifies classification by an effect of loop what is not the case in Natural science. Case studies on the maltreated children or the mentally ills, in the rewritten Heart and the Insane travellers , come to support this assertion. It thus appears difficult to extend the idea of social construction to the natural science as some do not hesitate to do it sociologists of sciences ( Between science and reality: The social construction of what? ).

In 2004, it is named Compagnon of the Ordre of Canada.

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