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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowled...

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Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used...

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Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But li...

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Both [Quine and Feyerabend] want to revise a version of positivism. Quine started with the Vienna Ci...

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Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic

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Ian Hacking

Philosopher

Born: 1936-02-18

Died: N/A

Ian Hacking CC, FRSC, FBA (February 18, 1936 – May 10, 2023) was a Canadian philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializing in philosophy of science.More