Ian Hacking’s Philosophical Legacy
The 13th Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference (VMST-13)
at
The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology (CVMST)
University of Texas at Dallas
May 20-21, 2025 (live) and May 23-24, 2025 (virtual)
Program
Day 1 (live): Tuesday, May 20 (GR 3.302)
9:00 am: Coffee
9:30: welcome from the Director
10:00-12:00: Contributed Papers
[10:00] Bojana Mladenovic (Williams College): Psychiatry in Dynamic Loop
[10:40] Riana Betzler (San Jose University): Interactivity and the Challenge of Studying Empathic Phenomena
[11:20] Richard Lauer (St. Lawrence University) and Kareem Khalifa (UCLA): Testing (In)stability: Are Races Interactive Kinds?
12:00:1:20: Lunch
Contributed Paper
[1:20] Jonathan Y. Tsou (University of Texas at Dallas): Hacking’s Particularism and Historical Methodology
2:00: Coffee Break
Keynote Speakers
[2:10] Şerife Tekin (SUNY Upstate Medical Center): Labs to Real People: Stability, Science and Moving Targets
[3:10] Coffee Break
[3:20] Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY Graduate Center): Hacking the Mind at its Joints: Revising the “Imitation & Internalization” Model
Day 2 (live): Wednesday May 21 (GR 3.302)
9:30 am: Coffee
10:00-12:00: Contributed Papers
[10:00] Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College): Styles of Reasoning, Paradigms, Thought Collectives, Conceptual Schemes, and Transformative Experiences: Teaching the Difference
[10:40] Ling Jin (Indiana University): Discerning the Intellectual Relationships between Ian Hacking’s Styles of Scientific Reasoning and Michel Foucault’s Épistémè: The Centrality of the Style of Statistical Reasoning
[1:20] Kathryn Petrozzo (Oakland University/ Illinois Institute of Technology) and Hannah Allen (University of Utah): Tracing Skulls: The Lasting Impact of Craniometry and Phrenology
12:00-1:20: Lunch
Contributed Paper
[1:20] Matteo Vagelli (University of Pisa / Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): Revisiting Ian Hacking’s Pluralism in the Context of the Stanford School
2:00: Coffee Break
Keynote Speakers
[2:10] Ron Mallon (Washington University in St. Louis): Knowledge and Power in Transient Mental Illness: Multiple Personality Disorder and Being Like a Wild Pig
3:10: Coffee Break
[3:20]: Paul Roth (University of California at Santa Cruz): Voices and Choices: Excavating Hacking’s Philosophical Anthropology
Day 3 (virtual): Friday May 23
Times are in Central Standard Time (USA)
[9:00 am] Henrik Røed Sherling (University of Cambridge): Looping Effects are Content-Dependent
[9:40] Giulia Russo (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa): Approaching Psychiatric Kinds: Who is Wrong about Which Kinds?
10:20: Break
[10:30] Alberto Bardi (University of Turin): Ian Hacking’s Philosophy of Mathematics as a Contribution to the Discussion on the Historicity of Mathematics
[11:10] Kenneth Aizawa (Rutgers University – Newark): Experimentation, Confirmation, and Entity Realism: Building on Themes from Hacking
11:50: Break
[12:00] Veronica Vieland (The Ohio State University): Hacking’s Law of Likelihood: What It is, What It is Not, and Why It Matters
[12:40] Conor Barry (Saint Thomas University): Ian Hacking on Objective and Subjective Probability
[1:20] Jamie Shaw (Leibniz Universität Hannover): Ian Hacking and Science Policy
Day 4 (virtual): Saturday May 24
Times are in Central Standard Time (USA)
[9:00 am] Iris Derzelle (University of Paris-East Créteil): Artificial Determinism and Experimental Intervention: 19th Century French Antivivisectionist Critiques through a Hackingian Lens
[9:40] Jack Ritchie (University of Cape Town): Hacking’s Metaphilosophical Project
10:20: Break
[10:30] Lucas Marcelo Cavalari Nardi (University of São Paulo): The Mathematization of Physics: Hacking’s Styles at Use
[11:10] Luca Sciortino (eCampus University, Italy): ‘Style’ for Hacking, ‘Style’ for Art-Historians’
11:50: Break
[12:00] Bruno Malavolta e Silva (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): Entity Realism as Embodied Understanding
[12:40] Paweł Kawalec (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin): Hacking’s Wager
[1:20] David J. Stump (University of San Francisco): Styles of Reasoning, Relativism and Experimental Realism
Program Committee