The new issue of Philosophical Inquiries (IX, 1-2021) features a Focus section discussing Ian Hacking’s philosophy, his arguments on the combination between history and philosophy of science, on experimental realism, on scientific stability and on the disunity of the sciences. The Focus section is edited by Matteo Vagelli and Marica Setaro. The issue also presents Gaston Bachelard’s introduction to his Le rationalisme appliqué translated into English for the first time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
[Focus section]
Ian Hacking and the Historical Reason of the Sciences
Matteo Vagelli and Marica Setaro
Introduction
David Hyder
Naturalism, Pragmatism and Historical Epistemology
Manolis Simos and Theodore Arabatzis
Ian Hacking’s metahistory of science
Massimiliano Simons and Matteo Vagelli
Were experiments ever neglected? Ian Hacking and the history of philosophy of experiment
Jacqueline Sullivan
Understanding stability in cognitive neuroscience through Hacking’s lens
[Past Present]
Lucie Fabry
Le rationalisme appliqué. A dialogical philosophy: Bachelard’s “Introduction” to Le Rationalisme appliqué
Gaston Bachelard
The dialogical philosophy. La philosophie dialoguée
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