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Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking
Canadian Philosopher
Born: Feb 18, 1936
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Related authors: Albert Camus Aristotle Confucius Friedrich Nietzsche Lao Tzu Plato Socrates Sun Tzu
In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy. Ian Hacking
Crazy You Generation Every Rules Firm How Behave Quite
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers. Ian Hacking
Constitution Better Political Revolution Sense Only Could Excess True Return Metaphor Times Mean
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. Ian Hacking
Biology Wing Taken Ideas Altering Without Problematic Molecular Things Core
Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed. Ian Hacking
Genius Stage Down Society Settings Else Dramas Out Composed Dress Structure Facts He Go Hitherto Anyone Anyone Else Orderly Which Little Clues Confrontation Them Turn Noticed Series Hardly
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. Ian Hacking
You Every Once Bad Seems Something Makes Quite Often Human Happens Realise While Race Human Race
Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else. Ian Hacking
Knowledge Matter Power Looking Else Relation Entire Something Something Else He Rethink Between New Conception Always How His Subject Subject Matter Trying Interact Want Who Many Two
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing. Ian Hacking
Events Power Analysis Ought Local Battles Know Doing Up Begin Tiny Where Ground Who Level Players
One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today. Ian Hacking
Today Science Marvellous Studies Know
Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world. Ian Hacking
History World Mind Looking Experiment Radical Changed Changes Our Way Telling Some Followed About Insofar Had He Terms Talking Sciences Said Scientists Were Intellectual Very Tinkering Often The History Of Process Theory Incidents Many Whom Spectacular
Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past. Ian Hacking
Past New Becomes Person Us Each
Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things. Ian Hacking
Memory People Remember Face Some People Sense Others Way Say Guides Able People Say Some About Clearly Talk Because How Just Form Them Produces Use Help Such Things Agreed Things Image Images Imaging
All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them. Ian Hacking
People Matter Extraordinarily Settling Ways Evolved About Issues Precise Them Things
We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images. Ian Hacking
People Other Way About Clearly Talk Images Need
Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing. Ian Hacking
Science Writing Enthusiasm Distinguished About Flair
Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century. Ian Hacking
Science Will Most Brain Century Popular Twenty-First Early
The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work. Ian Hacking
Life Work Death Our Wounded Impaired Primary Parts How Were Brain Walking Where Clues Dissected
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings. Ian Hacking
History You Emotions Long First Feeling Feelings Sense Ability Direct Emotion Come Most Also Human The History Of Race Then Human Race
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order. Ian Hacking
You Vision Philosophical Philosophy Topics Collection Diverse Obscure Look Alphabet Terms Arranged Up Dictionary Essays Order Informed Use Brief Thinkers
Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life. Ian Hacking
Life Secrecy Sides Private Public Public Life
It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action. Ian Hacking
Science Political Revolution Action Our Out Possible More Argue Conception Than Present
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian. Ian Hacking
People Events Revolution Despite Rightly About Proper Objects Clear Study Fair Also Affairs Historian American Revolutions Rhetoric Which Certain American Revolution Amount Second Consensus
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules. Ian Hacking
Great Important Rules Important Decisions Make Reduce Decisions Urge Them Hard
Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help. Ian Hacking
Great Few Everybody Rule Rules Those Would Find Follow Generalization Conduct Just Taught The Golden Rule Golden Want Golden Rule Us Should Kant Help

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