Ian Hacking

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TDTheoretical Drive

  8 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  7 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Nelson GoodmanTOUCHSTONE

  Fact, Fiction, and Forecast — grue, and ways of worldmaking.

• Gilbert RyleTOUCHSTONE

  The Concept of Mind — category mistakes; no ghost in the machine.

• Jenann IsmaelCARTOGRAPHER

  The self as a temporal pattern — physics meets first-person experience.

• Rae LangtonTOUCHSTONE

  Pornography as silencing — speech-act theory turned to ethics.

• David VellemanTOUCHSTONE

  Self-understanding as the form of agency; narratives of the self.

• Sarah BussTOUCHSTONE

  Autonomous Action — the conditions of self-governing agency.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Ian Hacking's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Fallacy hunt →

  Pick a real argument from the wild and find three reasoning errors in it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.