I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used to refer to some of… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution,… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Philosophers of science constantly discuss theories and representation of reality, but say almost nothing about experiment, technology, or the use of knowledge… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences,… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
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