Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking
Hacking in 2009
Born(1936-02-18)February 18, 1936
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
DiedMay 10, 2023(2023-05-10) (aged 87)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
Trinity College, Cambridge
Spouses
  • Laura Anne Leach
    (divorced)
  • (divorced)
  • Judith Baker
    (died 2014)
Children3
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Doctoral advisorCasimir Lewy
Doctoral studentsDavid Papineau
Main interests
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of statistics
Notable ideas
Entity realism
Historical ontology (transcendental nominalism)
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Ian MacDougall Hacking CC FRSC FBA (February 18, 1936 – May 10, 2023) was a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and was a member of many prestigious groups, including the Order of Canada, the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.

  1. ^ Storm, Jason Josephson (2021). Metamodernism: The Future of Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 119–121. ISBN 978-0-226-78665-0.