Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking

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<p>This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking's work. It presents Hackings <i>oeuvre</i> as a network made up of four interconnected key nodes: styles of scientific thinking& doing, probability, making up people, and experimentation and scientific realism.</p><p>Its central claim is that Michel Foucaults influence is the underlying thread that runs across the Canadian philosophers <i>oeuvre</i>. Foucaults imprint on Hackings work is usually mentioned in relation to styles of scientific reasoning and the human sciences. This research shows that Foucaults influence can in fact be extended beyond these fields, insofar the underlying interest to the whole corpus of Hackings works, namely the analysis of conditions of possibility, is stimulated by the work of the French philosopher.</p><p>Displacing scientific realism as the central focus of Ian Hackings oeuvre opens up a very different landscape, showing, behind the apparent dispersion of his works, thefar-reaching interest that amalgamates them: to reveal the historical and situated conditions of possibility for the emergence of scientific objects and concepts.</p><p>This book shows how Hackings deployment concepts such as looping effect, making up people, and interactive kinds, can complement Foucauldian analyses, offering an overarching perspective that can provide a better explanation of the objects of the human sciences and their behaviors.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p>María Laura Martínez, PhD, is Adjunct Professor of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the Universidad de la República (Uruguay). The focus of her research are the History and Philosophy of Science and the History of Science in Uruguay. She has published articles in those areas and is author of <i>75 primeros años en la formación de los ingenieros nacionales. Historia de la Facultad de Ingeniería (1885-1960) [</i><i>The first 75 years in the education of national engineers. History of the School of Engineering (1885-1960)]</i> (2014) and <i>Realismo científico y verdad como correspondencia: estado de la cuestión (2009) [</i><i>Scientific realism and correspondence theory of truth; state of the art]</i> (2009). She has received the National Prize of Literature in the category Philosophy Essays, from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay (2016).</p>

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