Ian MacDougall Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA (born February 18, 1936) is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science. Read full biography of Ian Hacking →
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the... →
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts... →
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and... →
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
Ian MacDougall Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA (born February 18, 1936) is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.