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Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking - Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking's Thinking (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking - Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking's Thinking (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Synthese Library, 435
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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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