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Ian Hacking
 
Date of birth: 1936
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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Philosopher

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    Ian Hacking, Order of Canada (born 1936 in Vancouver) is a philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science. He has undergraduate degrees from the University of British Columbia (1956) and the University of Cambridge (1958), where he was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. Hacking also took his Ph.D. at Cambridge (1962), under the direction of Casmir Lewy, a former student of Wittgenstein's. After teaching for several years at Stanford University, he joined t .... (More...)
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" 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 are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. "

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" 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. "

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" I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences. "

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" If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. "

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