Historical Ontology

Ian Hacking

  • Ian Hacking is recipient of the 2009 Holberg International Memorial Prize

1. Historical Ontology

2. Five Parables

3. Two Kinds of "New Historicism" for Philosophers

4. The Archaeology of Michel Foucault

5. Michel Foucault's Immature Science

6. Making Up People

7. Self-Improvement

8. How, Why, When, and Where Did Language Go Public?

9. Night Thoughts on Philology

10. Was There Ever a Radical Mistranslation?

11. Language, Truth, and Reason

12. "Style" for Historians and Philosophers

13. Leibniz and Descartes: Proof and Eternal Truths

14. Wittgenstein as Philosophical Psychologist

15. Dreams in Place

Works Cited

Sources

Index

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Ian Hacking is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Concepts at the College de France. Among his many books, the most recent is Rewriting the Soul.