76 Quotes by Ian Hacking

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.

The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.

It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.