Ian Hacking Historical Ontology (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Historical OntologyCondition: NewEAN: 9780674016071ISBN: 9780674016071Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/15/2004Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 17mmAuthor: Ian HackingLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0674016076Description: With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus of this volume, which collects both recent and now-classic essays, is the historical emergence of concepts and objects, through new uses of words and sentences in specific settings, and new patterns or styles of reasoning within those sentences. In its lucid and thoroughgoing look at the historical dimension of concepts, the book is at once a systematic formulation of Hacking’s approach and its relation to other types of intellectual history, and a valuable contribution to philosophical understanding.Hacking opens the volume with an extended meditation on the philosophical significance of history. The importance of Michel Foucault—for the development of this theme, and for Hacking’s own work in intellectual history—emerges in the following chapters, which place Hacking’s classic essays on Foucault within the wider context of general reflections on historical methodology. Against this background, Hacking then develops ideas about how language, styles of reasoning, and “psychological” phenomena figure in the articulation of concepts—and in the very prospect of doing philosophy as historical ontology.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryItem Weight: 408gRelease Year: 2004 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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