Ian Hacking’s scientific contributions

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Kinds of People: Moving Targets
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December 2007

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Proceedings of the British Academy

Ian Hacking

This lecture gives a proposed framework within which to think about making up people as well as the looping effect. It elaborates on the kinds of people that will not be discussed, such as those belonging to different classifications called ‘ethnic’. The focus of this lecture is in the ways the social, medical and biological sciences create new classifications and new knowledge. The engines of discovery and autism are two of the topics covered by the lecture.

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... Such a claim is reminiscent of what Hacking has called as "the benign example of looping effect: the classified people enhance and adjust what is true of them." 89 The Mamlatdar-Crawford controversy serves as a prism to understand the various intellectual positions towards empire and corruption. The question of who was corrupt and what were the sources of their corruption dramatized the divergences between the conservative and liberal notions of empire and corruption that could not be segregated along racial lines. ...

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Corrupt Traditions and Traditions of Corruption: Caste, Colonialism, and Corruption in Late Nineteenth-Century India
Kinds of People: Moving Targets
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  • December 2007

Proceedings of the British Academy

Ian Hacking