Research Project
Nazione Canada Anno 2014
Ian Hacking
2014 Balzan Prize for Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
For his fundamental and pioneering contributions to philosophy and the history of social and natural sciences; for the thematic breadth of his research; for his original epistemological perspective centred on a version of scientific realism and defined in contrast with the dominant paradigm in the philosophy of science of the twentieth century.
Excerpt from The Balzan Prizewinners’ Research Projects: An Overview 2020