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On Hacking on Representing and Intervening*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

James Van Evra
James Van Evra
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo
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Extract

One major part of Representing and Intervening is completely without blemish. In it we find Ian Hacking busy puncturing received opinions about science in his usual lucid and engaging style. If you think, for instance, that scientists decide what exists by passively observing the passing show, Hacking has news for you. Similarly, if you think that experiments exist just to test theories, or that science begins and ends with theories, or that within science as practised there is even any univocal rendering of the term “theory”, you are equally on the verge of surprise.

Type
Critical Notices/Etudes critiques
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , Winter 1986 , pp. 741 - 746
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1986

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References

* Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 287, $37.50, $11.95 paper.