{"id":12165,"date":"2024-03-06T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T14:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=12165"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:59:08","slug":"lan-hacking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/lan-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Ian Hacking\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Ian-Hacking-160x196.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Ian-Hacking-160x196.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Ian-Hacking-240x294.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Ian-Hacking-200x245.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Ian-Hacking.png 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>lan Hacking was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, \u201cin recognition of distinguished contribution to scholarship and public intellectual life.&#8221;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>lan Hacking is a Canadian philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of science. He has worked at Cambridge University, Stanford University, the University of Toronto, where he was a University Professor, and at the Collage de France in Paris, where he held the chair of philosophy and history of scientific concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His numerous published works, which have generated new fields of research and reflection, include Logic of Statistical Inference (1965), The Emergence of Probability (1975), and The Taming of Chance (1990).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among his many honours, Mr. Hacking was named a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2004, and has received honorary degrees from Cordaba (Argentina), the University of British Columbia, McMaster University and the University of Toronto. In 2008, he received the Gold Medal for Achievement in Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-m291cl8mE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Ian Hacking<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lan Hacking was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, \u201cin recognition of distinguished contribution to scholarship and public intellectual life.&#8221; lan Hacking is a Canadian philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of science. 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