Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking is the author of The Social Construction of What? and, on mental illness, Rewriting the Soul and Mad Travellers.

In the LRB Archive:

• Lost in the Forest: Who needs the DSM? · 8 August 2013

  • DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition by the American Psychiatric Association

• Diary: Walking in the Andes · 10 September 2009
  Judith Baker and Ian Hacking

• How Shall We Repaint the Kitchen?: The Colour Red · 1 November 2007

  • Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind by G.E.R. Lloyd

• Almost Zero: Ideas of Nature · 10 May 2007

  • The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature by Pierre Hadot, translated by Michael Chase

• Whose body is it?: Transplants · 14 December 2006

  • Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies and the Transformed Self by Lesley Sharp

• Making Up People: clinical classifications · 17 August 2006

• What is Tom saying to Maureen?: What We Know about Autism · 11 May 2006

  • The Science and Fiction of Autism by Laura Schreibman
  • Send in the Idiots, or How We Grew to Understand the World by Kamran Nazeer

• Get knitting: Birth and Death of the Brain · 18 August 2005

  • The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind by Steven Rose

• Mindblind: Religion’s evolutionary origins · 21 October 2004

  • In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran

• What did Aum Shinrikyo have in mind?: Sarin in the Subway · 19 October 2000

  • Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum

• ‘Screw you, I’m going home’ · 22 June 2000

  • Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being by Paul Feyerabend, edited by Bert Terpstra

• Mitteleuropa am Aldwych: The Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence · 20 January 2000

  • For and against Method: including Lakatos’s Lectures on Scientific Method and the Lakatos-Feyerabend Correspondence by Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend, edited by Matteo Motterlini

• Gabble, Twitter and Hoot: language, deafness and the senses · 1 July 1999

  • I See a Voice: A Philosophical History of Language, Deafness and the Senses by Jonathan Rée

• Taking Bad Arguments Seriously · 21 August 1997

• The Passing Show · 2 January 1997

  • On Blindness: Letters between Bryan Magee and Martin Milligan

• Aloha, aloha · 7 September 1995

  • What ‘Natives’ Think: About Captain Cook, For Example by Marshall Sahlins

• Pull the Other One · 26 January 1995

  • The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray

• What’s best · 27 January 1994

  • The Nature of Rationality by Robert Nozick

• Plato’s Friend · 17 December 1992

  • Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch

• Severals · 11 June 1992

  • First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind by Stephen Braude

• His Father The Engineer · 28 May 1992

  • Understanding the present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man by Bryan Appleyard

• Locke rules · 21 November 1991

  • Locke. Vol. I: Epistemology by Michael Ayers
  • Locke. Vol. II: Ontology by Michael Ayers

• Living Things · 21 February 1991

  • Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science by Scott Atran

• Signing · 5 April 1990

  • Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks
  • When the mind hears: A History of the Deaf by Harlan Lane
  • Deafness: A Personal Account by David Wright

• Putnam’s Change of Mind · 4 May 1989

  • Representation and Reality by Hilary Putnam
  • Mental Content by Colin McGinn

• Making up the mind · 1 September 1988

  • The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science by P.N. Johnson-Laird

• Solipsism · 4 February 1988

  • The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Vol. I by David Pears
  • Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard

• Knowledge · 18 December 1986

  • How institutions think by Mary Douglas

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