With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and
penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to
his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the
philosophical uses of history. The focus of this volume, which
collects both recent and now-classic essays, is the historical
emergence of concepts and objects, through new uses of words and
sentences in specific settings, and new patterns or styles of
reasoning within those sentences. In its lucid and thoroughgoing
look at the historical dimension of concepts, the book is at once a
systematic formulation of Hacking's approach and its relation to
other types of intellectual history, and a valuable contribution to
philosophical understanding.
Hacking opens the volume with an extended meditation on the
philosophical significance of history. The importance of Michel
Foucault--for the development of this theme, and for Hacking's own
work in intellectual history--emerges in the following chapters,
which place Hacking's classic essays on Foucault within the wider
context of general reflections on historical methodology. Against
this background, Hacking then develops ideas about how language,
styles of reasoning, and "psychological" phenomena figure in the
articulation of concepts--and in the very prospect of doing
philosophy as historical ontology.
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