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Slightly peripherally, Ian Hacking's book on probability should be part of the background for any history of calculation.

Blogs as Wunderkammern Heather McDougal 2008

By implication, it is also clear that more robustly committed realistic positions will not fit well with Hacking's account of reasoning styles.

Mathematical Style Mancosu, Paolo 2009

Ian Hacking's book, The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference, provides a nice account of some of these developments.

Archive 2009-03-01 Daniel Little 2009

And indeed, Hacking's position rejects realism and embraces a strongly constitutive role for style.

Mathematical Style Mancosu, Paolo 2009

Van Fraassen (1985, 298) replies by pointing out an unwarranted supposition in Hacking's argument: the claim that we made the grid to be that way implies what is under dispute, that the grid was successfully made to be that way.

Beyond the Voice arlene ang 2009

Ian Hacking's book, The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference, provides a nice account of some of these developments.

Proto social inquiry Daniel Little 2009

On Hacking's model, one he called “the looping effect of human kinds,” the conception of the behavior may be part of an epistemic project of understanding a human kind that in turn gives rise to the clusters of traits that the theory represents

Naturalistic Approaches to Social Construction Mallon, Ron 2008

Others have drawn on Hacking's account to offer similar accounts of constructed kinds of person, including K. Anthony Appiah (1996) on racial identities, and Paul Griffiths (1997) on performed emotional syndromes.

Naturalistic Approaches to Social Construction Mallon, Ron 2008

Many commentators agree with Hacking's (1980) estimation that “few of us would pay even $25 to enter such a game.”

The St. Petersburg Paradox Martin, Robert 2008

Together with Hacking's work, these accounts provide partial, causal interpretation of even quite radical claims about kinds of person.

Naturalistic Approaches to Social Construction Mallon, Ron 2008