Texture in the work of Ian Hacking : Michel Foucault as the guiding thread of Hacking's thinking / María Laura Martínez Rodríguez.
Martínez Rodríguez, María Laura, author.
2021
B995.H33
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Title
Texture in the work of Ian Hacking : Michel Foucault as the guiding thread of Hacking's thinking / María Laura Martínez Rodríguez.
Author
Martínez Rodríguez, María Laura, author.
ISBN
9783030647858 (electronic bk.)
3030647854 (electronic bk.)
9783030647841
3030647846
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64785-8
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 175 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-64785-8 doi
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B995.H33
Dewey Decimal Classification
191
Summary
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. Displacing scientific realism as the central focus of Ian Hacking's oeuvre opens up a very different landscape, showing, behind the apparent dispersion of his works, the far-reaching interest that amalgamates them: to reveal the historical and situated conditions of possibility for the emergence of scientific objects and concepts. This book shows how Hacking's 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Synthese library ; v. 435. 0166-6991
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Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. "Taking a look" at Ian Hacking's work
Chapter 2. Styles of scientific thinking & doing. A genealogy of scientific reason
Chapter 3. Probability. Books that smell like other books
Chapter 4. Making up people. A project of more than three decades
Chapter 5. Classifications, looping effect and power
Chapter 6. Experimentation and Scientific Realism. A return of Francis Bacon
Chapter 7. On Foucault's shoulders
Epilogue
References
Index.

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