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5 unusual facts about Ian Hacking


Confidence interval

Hacking, I. (1965) Logic of Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Ian Hacking

The fourth edition (2010) of Feyerabend's 1975 book Against Method and the fiftieth anniversary edition (2012) of Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions include an Introduction by Hacking.

In 2003, he gave the Sigmund H Danziger Jr Memorial lecture The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities.

Julius Moravcsik

He contributed greatly to building the department; his appointments, included Stuart Hampshire and J. O. Urmson from England and the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking.

Likelihood principle

The law of likelihood was identified by that name by I. Hacking (1965).


Johan Furåker

Through painting, drawing and installation Furåker has recreated the lifestory of Dadas, who, by Phillip Tissié, was diagnosed with the first recorded case of pathological tourism, an uncontrollable urge to wander, as documented in Ian Hacking's book Mad Travellers.


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