Ian Hacking

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Ian Hacking is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specialised in the History of Science. Wikipedia entry

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The Social Construction of What?

by Ian Hacking

Rating: 4.0 ⭐

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality.Especiall

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