Ian  Hacking,Historical Ontology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2002), 320 pp., $39.95 (cloth).

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ali Khalidi
Keyword(s):  
Harvard University ◽  
Ian Hacking ◽  
Historical Ontology

scholarly journals Investigación filosófica y emociones

Daímon ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Zaragoza Bernal
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Ian Hacking ◽  
Historical Ontology ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Natural Feature ◽  
New Form

Los estudios filosóficos sobre emociones se pueden dividir en dos grandes grupos: 1) aquellos que consideran que las emociones son naturales, resultado de nuestra evolución; 2) aquellos que, interesados en el pensamiento de autores concretos respecto a las emociones, no sostienen ninguna posición sustantiva acerca de ellas. En este artículo exploramos una tercera opción: entender que las emociones son históricas, contextuales y socialmente definidas. Abrimos así la posibilidad a una nueva forma de investigación filosófica, que partiría de la ontología histórica del filósofo Ian Hacking como herramienta desde la que abordar el estudio filosófico de las emociones en la historia. Emotions research in Philosophy could be classified into two main groups: 1) Those that considers emotions as a natural feature, the result of our evolutionary history; 2) Those that are interested in the study of what a particular philosopher said about the emotions, and, therefore, do not sustain any substantive claim about the nature of the emotions. I explore a third option: to understand emotions as historical, contextual, and socially constituted. This new approach opens up the door to a new form of philosophical inquiry on emotions in their historical contexts, based on Ian Hacking’s historical ontology.

scholarly journals Mapping out the subject of Brazilian social psychology in the production of the national association of research and post-graduate studies in psychology

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (spe) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Adegas de Azambuja ◽  
Carolina dos Reis ◽  
Neuza Maria de Fátima Guareschi ◽  
Simone Maria Hüning
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Work Group ◽  
National Association ◽  
Ian Hacking ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Historical Ontology ◽  
Discursive Formation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Discursive Field

This paper problematizes the Brazilian Social Psychology and its knowledge production on the registers of the Work Group (WG) of symposiums of the National Association of Research and Post-Graduation in Psychology (ANPEPP), during 1988 to 2010. Using Michel Foucault's archeo-genealogical perspective and the contributions by Ian Hacking about the historical ontology of subjects, we analyzed technologies of power and knowledge in the disciplines of Social Psychology. We selected the WG abstracts in which circulate the utterances that make up the discursive field of Brazilian Social Psychology. Using the narrative of WGs we outlined a discursive formation of identities/technologies of the subject. The knowledges of Social Psychology in the history of the ANPEPP's WGs contribute to the constitution of categories and psychological classifications which objectivize subjects. We think Social Psychology, in its criticisms related to psychological and social concepts comprises practices and regimes of truth about the subject of Social Psychology.

scholarly journals Interactive Commodity Loop

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-28
Author(s):  
Vladimir Gvozden
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Ian Hacking ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Historical Ontology ◽  
The People ◽  
Human Use ◽  
Points Of Resistance

The commodity is recognized as an essential element of our world. If our relationship with commodity as the structuring form of capitalist society is an ongoing process of subjective work and the exchange of meanings, then the question of historical ontology becomes inevitable. Historical ontology means that “we constitute ourselves at a place and time, using materials that have a distinctive and historically formed organization” (I. Hacking). This paper is an attempt to interpret commodity through the extension of two concepts developed by Ian Hacking (the looping effect, the making up people), and their connection with the philosophical approach to economy. The looping effects of commodity create a special ambience, special forms of connection and separation, equality and hierarchy, community and singularity, freedom and affirmation. The article gives a short historical account of the emergence of the commodity loop (from the 1850s to 2001), and singles out the importance of the structural determinations of capitalism (the ideology of free market, property, state mechanisms, a specific type of culture, etc.). The “making up people” inside the commodity loop presumes the people who count, take part in the marketising, imagine the market in every situation, interiorize the market-conforming sense of guilt and responsibility, and, paradoxically, will be ready to be self-entrepreneurs, to participate in own making up. It is shown that contemporary doxa becomes evident from the perspective of the commodity loop, although it creates a context of harmony and reduces complexity. As the analysis goes deeper, we are discovering interactive nodes at steadily increasing levels of intensity but also two possible productive points of resistance (inequality, immigration). The commodity loop is an ontological fabric in which all threads are woven together, from political and economic to social and personal relationships. At the end of the article, we try to connect Agamben’s ideal of profanation with Hacking’s looping effect. This leads to the conclusion that commodity’s phantom-like objectivity should be profaned, which means to return it to free human use.

Review of Historical Ontology, by Ian Hacking

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-500
Author(s):  
Karim Dharamsi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ian Hacking ◽  
Historical Ontology

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