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{{Short description|Canadian philosopher (1936–2023)}}
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{{Infobox philosopher
| name             = Ian Hacking
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|FRSC|FBA|size=100%}}
| image            = Ian Hacking (cropped).jpg
| alt              = 
| caption          = Hacking in 2009
| birth_name       = Ian MacDougall Hacking
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1936|02|18|mf=yes}}
| birth_place      = [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], Canada
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|2023|05|10|1936|02|18|mf=yes}}
| death_place      = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| alma_mater       = [[University of British Columbia]]<br />[[Trinity College, Cambridge]]
| spouse           = {{ubl|{{marriage|Laura Anne Leach|end = divorced}}|{{marriage|[[Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)|Nancy Cartwright]]|end = divorced}}|{{marriage|Judith Baker||2014|end = died}}}}
| children         = 3
| era              = [[20th-century philosophy]]
| region           = [[Western philosophy]]
| school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Casimir Lewy]]
| doctoral_students = [[David Papineau]]
| main_interests   = [[Philosophy of science]]<br />[[Philosophy of statistics]]
| notable_ideas    = [[Entity realism]]<br />Historical [[ontology]] ([[transcendental nominalism]])
| influences       = [[Michel Foucault]], [[Paul Feyerabend]], [[Nelson Goodman]], [[Thomas Kuhn]], [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], [[J. L. Austin]], [[Casimir Lewy]]
| influenced       = [[David Papineau]], [[Jason Josephson Storm]]<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = University of Chicago Press| isbn = 978-0-226-78665-0| last = Storm| first = Jason Josephson| title = Metamodernism: The Future of Theory| location = Chicago | pages=119–121 | date = 2021 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pEQ6EAAAQBAJ}}</ref>
}}

'''Ian MacDougall Hacking''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|FRSC|FBA}} (February 18, 1936 – May 10, 2023) was a Canadian philosopher specializing in the [[philosophy of science]]. Throughout his career, he won numerous awards, such as the [[Killam Prize]] for the Humanities and the [[Balzan Prize]], and was a member of many prestigious groups, including the [[Order of Canada]], the [[Royal Society of Canada]] and the [[British Academy]].