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Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking: Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking's Thinking

Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking: Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking's Thinking

Martínez Rodríguez, María Laura

Hardcover

Series: Synthese Library, Book 435

General SociologyHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 3030647846
ISBN13: 9783030647841
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 20 2021
Pages: 175
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book offers a systematized overview of Ian Hacking's work. It presents Hacking's oeuvre as a network made up of four interconnected key nodes: styles of scientific thinking & doing, probability, making up people, and experimentation and scientific realism.

Its central claim is that Michel Foucault's influence is the underlying thread that runs across the Canadian philosopher's oeuvre. Foucault's imprint on Hacking's work is usually mentioned in relation to styles of scientific reasoning and the human sciences. This research shows that Foucault's influence can in fact be extended beyond these fields, insofar the underlying interest to the whole corpus of Hacking's works, namely the analysis of conditions of possibility, is stimulated by the work of the French philosopher.

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