Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking

Acknowledgments<div>Contents</div><div>Introduction</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 1. “Taking a look” at Ian Hacking’s work</div><div>1. The nodes of the network</div><div>1.1 Scientific reasoning or thinking & doing style</div><div>1.2 Probability</div><div>1.3 Making up people</div><div>1.4 Experimentation and scientific realism</div><div>2. Constructing the network</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 2. Styles of scientific thinking & doing. A genealogy of scientific reason</div><div>1. Antecedents of style of reasoning or style of scientific thinking & doing</div><div>2. Metaphysics, microsociology and anthropology</div><div>3. Anonymous, autonomous and common to several sciences</div><div>4. The relation style-ontology</div><div>5. Stabilization techniques</div><div>6. Style and positivity</div><div>7. Style and truth</div><div>8. An innovation with respect to Crombie: the idea of crystallization</div><div>9. Practical incommensurability</div><div>10. Essence of the style: classification</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 3. Probability. Books that smell like other books</div><div>1. The Emergence of Probability (1975)</div><div>1.1 Archaeology in The Emergence of Probability</div><div>1.2 The emergence of probability</div><div>1.3 The Emergence of Probability, an example of historical meta-epistemology</div><div>2. The Taming of Chance (1990)</div><div>2.1 Words in their sites</div><div>2.2 The erosion of determinism and the emergence of chance</div><div>2.3 Genealogy in The Taming of Chance</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 4. Making up people. A project of more than three decades</div><div>1. Are there natural kinds?</div><div>2. Dynamic nominalism</div><div>3. Historical ontology</div><div>4. Contingentism</div><div>5. Making up people and looping effect</div><div>6. Looping effect and memory</div><div>7. Metaphor of the ecological niche</div><div>8. Different types of kinds</div><div>9. Kinds of people</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 5. Classifications, looping effect and power</div><div>1. An overview of power in Foucault</div><div>2. Classification, looping effect and power</div><div>3. Classifications, looping effect and resistance</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 6. Experimentation and Scientific Realism. A return of Francis Bacon</div><div>1. Experimentation and Scientific Realism</div><div>2. The realism/antirealism debate</div><div>3. Entity realism</div><div>4. Creation of phenomena</div><div>5. “Saving phenomena”?</div>6. Representing and intervening in the natural and human sciences<div><br></div><div>Chapter 7. On Foucault’s shoulders</div><div>1. Scientific realism in Hacking’s work viewed as a whole</div><div>2. The analysis of conditions of possibility as the main interest of Hacking’s work</div><div>3. Michael Foucault: the texture in Hacking’s work</div><div><br></div><div>Epilogue</div><div>References </div><div>Index</div>