Editing Ian Hacking (section)

== Life and career ==
Born in [[Vancouver]], British Columbia, he earned undergraduate degrees from the [[University of British Columbia]] (1956) and the [[University of Cambridge]] (1958), where he was a student at [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]].<ref name="Williams">{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Alex |date=May 28, 2023 |title=Ian Hacking, Eminent Philosopher of Science and Much Else, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/science/ian-hacking-dead.html |url-access=limited |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528155111/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/science/ian-hacking-dead.html |archive-date=May 28, 2023 |accessdate=May 28, 2023 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Hacking also earned his PhD at Cambridge (1962) under the direction of [[Casimir Lewy]], a former student of [[G. E. Moore]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ianhacking.com|title=Ian Hacking, Philosopher|website=www.ianhacking.com|access-date=June 9, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125172125/http://www.ianhacking.com/|archive-date=January 25, 2013}}</ref>

Hacking started his teaching career as an instructor at [[Princeton University]] in 1960 but, after just one year, moved to the [[University of Virginia]] as an assistant professor. After working as a research fellow at [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]] from 1962 to 1964, he taught at his alma mater, UBC, first as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor from 1964 to 1969. He became a lecturer at Cambridge, again a member of Peterhouse, in 1969 before moving to [[Stanford University]] in 1974. After teaching for several years at Stanford, he spent a year at the [[Center for Interdisciplinary Research]] in [[Bielefeld]], Germany, from 1982 to 1983. Hacking was promoted to Professor of Philosophy at the [[University of Toronto]] in 1983 and University Professor, the highest honour the University of Toronto bestows on faculty, in 1991.<ref name=":0" /> From 2000 to 2006, he held the Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts at the [[Collège de France]]. Hacking is the first Anglophone to be elected to a permanent chair in the Collège's history.<ref>Jon Miller, "Review of Ian Hacking, Historical Ontology", ''Theoria'' '''72'''(2) (2006), p. 148. {{doi|10.1111/j.1755-2567.2006.tb00951.x}}</ref> After retiring from the Collège de France, Hacking was a professor of philosophy at [[UC Santa Cruz]], from 2008 to 2010. He concluded his teaching career in 2011 as a visiting professor at the [[University of Cape Town]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ian Hacking fonds - Discover Archives |url=https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ian-hacking-fonds |access-date=May 15, 2023 |website=discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca}}</ref>

Hacking was married three times: his first two marriages, to Laura Anne Leach and fellow philosopher [[Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)|Nancy Cartwright]], ended in divorce. His third marriage, to Judith Baker, also a philosopher, lasted until her death in 2014. He had two daughters and a son, as well as one stepson.<ref name = Williams/>

Hacking died from heart failure at a retirement home in Toronto on May 10, 2023, at the age of 87.<ref name = Williams/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/news/in-memoriam-ian-hacking-1936-2023/|title=In memoriam: Ian Hacking (1936-2023)|access-date=May 10, 2023}}</ref>