Series 7 - Research and subject files

4.42 m of textual records
891 digital files (382 MB)

Series consists of research material and correspondence with colleagues and scholars collected by Hacking in the course of his academic activity. Records included are predominantly reprints, though also include press clippings, emails, written correspondence, transparencies, and notebooks. Material is grouped by subject as well as author.

Subject matter encompasses a broad range of topics including the history of mathematics, physics (in particular, Bose-Einstein condensates), genetics, classification and taxonomies, porphyrian trees, medieval illustration, autism, body augmentation, suicide terrorism, and psychoanalysis. Authors represented include Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hilary Putnam, Saul Kripke, Willard Van Orman Quine, Michel Foucault, Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison, Bruno Latour, and Noam Chomsky. Correspondence included within the research files is noted in the file title within square brackets. Additional content such as partial manuscripts and correspondence can be found on the verso of records as Hacking frequently reused paper.

Series 7 is arranged loosely by subject matter to preserve components of the original order in which the material was received. Both subjects and authors are repeated throughout the series, though are often clustered together.

The following eight files are restricted, please contact the University Archivist for additional information:

• B2016-0017/019(13)
• B2016-0017/021(14)
• B2016-0017/025(30)
• B2016-0017/037(10)
• B2016-0017/040(06)
• B2016-0017/040(12)
• B2016-0017/046(13)
• B2016-0017/048(17)

• English
• French

Dates reflects those of original publication, files were copied and collected between ca. 1965 and 2015