Hacking
Canadian philosopher of science known for work on probability, statistics, and the historical/social ontology of science; author of Representing and Intervening, The Taming of Chance, The Social Construction of What?, and Historical Ontology.
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1. Historical Ontology
An account of how categories, objects, and knowledges are not timeless discoveries but historically produced through practices, classifications, technologies, and institutions. It argues that scientific methods and social practices actively create and transform kinds of people and things—illustrated by concepts like the ‘making up’ of people and looping effects—so that explanation must attend to historical emergence, experimental intervention, and the mutual shaping of subjects and categories.
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