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Review of Hacking's 'Historical Ontology',
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When I first saw this work in the reading list for my course, I was a bit baffled. The cover design didn't clear things up, either. However, the prose itself is friendly and lucid. Hacking is great at outlining his ideas slowly and plainly. If Foucault were an English major, he would have written like Ian Hacking (that's a terrible oversimplification). The content of the essays varies rather widely, but they make a great supplement to any reading of Foucault.
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Socially Constructed Ontology,
By W. Jamison "William S. Jamison" (Eagle River, Ak United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Historical Ontology (Paperback)
The possibilities of what can be found to be true or become true have opened up with our advance in technology. There are things that we can make true today that have never been true before. (Idea from Hacking interpreting Foucault). This might also be called Darwinizing Ontology with reference to "Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics As a Science" - by Robert Aunger. So this is still one more the evolution narrative is being used to convert our previous understanding.
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Historical Ontology by Ian Hacking (Paperback - September 15, 2004)
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