Quotes About Ian Hacking

Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.

It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.