Ian Hacking
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Philosophy and the History of Scientific Concepts, College de France
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
October 27, 2010 — 4:10 PMBerkeley City Club, Ballroom — 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
About The Lecture In this lecture, Professor Ian Hacking will explore how our innate sense of symmetry has enabled us to probe the most hidden secrets of nature and also to get along with each other. About Ian Hacking A … Continued
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In this lecture, Professor Ian Hacking will explore how our innate sense of symmetry has enabled us to probe the most hidden secrets of nature and also to get along with each other.
About Ian Hacking
A distinguished philosopher, Ian Hacking combines attention to anecdotal details about our experiences with very general conceptions of the place of human beings in the world. He likes to think of himself as a philosophical anthropologist. In this lecture he will present a new development in his philosophy, one which remains in the spirit of what has established his reputation as a “Philosopher of the Particular Case.” His early work, represented by The Emergence of Probability (1975) and The Taming of Chance (1990) brought a new understanding of how statistics changed the world and how we think about it, from sociology to physics, not omitting sports and our sex lives. His Representing and Intervening (1983) returned philosophers of science to their roots, namely experimental science. It began what he calls a “back to Francis Bacon movement,” which has changed the history, philosophy, and sociology of the sciences.