2026 Ian Hacking: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	69	791	47	325	36956

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Research.com Recognitions

2014 - International Balzan Prize
2009 - Holberg Prize, Government of Norway "for his combination of rigorous philosophical and historical analysis which has profoundly altered our understanding of the ways in which key concepts emerge through scientific practices and in specific social and institutional contexts"
2002 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1990 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1986 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Overview

Ian Hacking was affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their academic work primarily spanned the fields of Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with specific engagement in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, and the History and Philosophy of Science.

Their main topics of study included:

Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Philosophy and Historical Thought
Philosophy, Science, and History

Ian Hacking's research explored the intersections of philosophy and historical thought, emphasizing the ways scientific practices shape key concepts within social and institutional contexts.

Throughout their career, they received several awards recognizing their contributions to philosophy and the history of science. These honors included:

International Balzan Prize (2014)
Holberg Prize, Government of Norway (2009), awarded "for his combination of rigorous philosophical and historical analysis which has profoundly altered our understanding of the ways in which key concepts emerge through scientific practices and in specific social and institutional contexts"
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council (2002)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1990)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1986), Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Their contributions to philosophy and history extended to a concise but focused number of publications concentrated in the overlapping areas of cognitive psychology and philosophy. Ian Hacking's work provided insights relevant to experimental and cognitive psychology alongside deep philosophical inquiry into historical processes and scientific development.

Best Publications

The Social Construction of What

Ian Hacking

4498
Citations
Representing and Intervening

Ian Hacking

2950
Citations
The Taming of Chance

Ian Hacking

2685
Citations
Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science

Ian Hacking

2144
Citations
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory

Ian Hacking

1834
Citations
The Emergence of Probability

Terrence L. Fine;Ian Hacking

1561
Citations
The Emergence of Probability. A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

Ian Hacking

1198
Citations
Logic of Statistical Inference

Ian Hacking

823
Citations
Kinds of People: Moving Targets

Ian Hacking

722
Citations
Representing and Intervening

Adam Morton;Ian Hacking

657
Citations
An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic

Ian Hacking

615
Citations
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics

Ian Hacking;Hubert L. Dreyfus;Paul Rabinow;Michel Foucault

615
Citations
The looping effects of human kinds

Ian Hacking

614
Citations
Between Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman: between discourse in the abstract and face-to-face interaction

Ian Hacking

582
Citations
The Identity of Indiscernibles

Ian Hacking

561
Citations
‘Style’ for historians and philosophers☆

Ian Hacking

522
Citations
Rewriting the Soul

Ian Hacking

441
Citations
Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses

Ian Hacking

427
Citations
The Social Construction of What

John Dupre;Ian Hacking

366
Citations
Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?: The heyday of ideas

Unknown

237
Citations
The Emergence of Probability.

Glenn R. Shafer;Ian Hacking

110
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Crispin Wright University of Stirling

Steven Shapin Harvard University

Lorraine Daston Max Planck Society

John Dupré University of Exeter

Hubert L. Dreyfus University of California, Berkeley

Paul Rabinow University of California, Berkeley

Philip Kitcher Columbia University

Stanley Cavell Harvard University

Richard Rorty Stanford University

External Links

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