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Historical Ontology. Ian Hacking

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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Page: 171
ISBN: 067400616X, 9780674006164

From Publishers Weekly

The use of history by philosophers is the overarching theme in this University of Toronto philosophy professor's collection of essays, Historical Ontology. Ian Hacking (The Social Construction of What?), who also holds the chair of philosophy and history of scientific concepts at the College de France, wrote these academic papers, book reviews and articles between 1973 and 1999. Many of them address Michel Foucault's mingling of history and philosophy, particularly in The Order of Things. Hacking also includes pieces on the role of dreams in philosophy, the proofs of Leibniz and Descartes, and a survey of Wittgenstein's work.

From Library Journal

To this collection of 14 essays written between 1973 and 1999 Hacking has added a revision of a hitherto unpublished 1999 lecture that provides a context of some general ideas about the relationship between philosophy and history. He focuses on the interactions between what there is (or comes to be) and our concepts thereof. The kinds of objects he considers, both of which he regards as historical, are Aristotelian universals and their instances. He emphasizes that not only do ordinary physical objects and people and their institutions begin, develop, and end, but so do concepts, especially organizing concepts, e.g., those of language, knowledge, a child, (psychic) trauma, and scientific reasoning. Among the philosophers whose views are discussed in detail are Foucault, Leibniz, Descartes, Kant, Wittgenstein, Quine, and Davidson. Stimulating, incisive, and clear even in expounding theories of unclear writers. Robert Hoffman, York Coll. of CUNY Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.