Ian Hacking’s Philosophical Legacy
The 13th Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference (VMST-13)
The 13th Values in Medicine Science, and Technology conference (VMST-13), Ian Hacking’s Philosophical Legacy, was hosted by the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology (CVMST) in May 2025 at the University of Texas at Dallas. This four-day conference featured 26 presentations (12 live and 14 virtual presentations) and attracted an international group of scholars from eight countries and four continents. Photos from the conference are below.
Days 1-2 (May 20-21, 2025): Live Presentations
Keynote speaker: Şerife Tekin (SUNY Upstate Medical Center) on looping effects, stability, and spraying the self
Keynote speaker: Ron Mallon (Washington University in St. Louis) on transient mental illness, multiple personality, and running amok
Keynote speaker: Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY Graduate Center) on Hacking’s imitation and internalization model of human kinds
Keynote speaker: Paul A. Roth (UC Santa Cruz) on Hacking’s philosophical anthropology
Matteo Vagelli (University of Pisa / Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) on Hacking and the Stanford School of Philosophy of Science
Bojana Mladenovic (Williams College) on psychiatry in dynamic loop
Riana Betzler (San Jose University) on looping effects and scientific research on empathy
Richard Lauer (St. Lawrence University), presenting a paper by Richard Lauer and Kareem Khalifa (UCLA) on race and interactive kinds
Jonathan Y. Tsou (UT Dallas) on Hacking’s particularism and historical methodology
Alexandra Bradner (Kenyon College) on teaching conceptual schemes and styles of reasoning
Ling Jin (Indiana University) on Hacking’s styles of reasoning and Foucault’s epistemes
Kathryn Petrozzo (Oakland University/ Illinois Institute of Technology) and Hannah Allen (University of Utah/ University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) on the historical impact of craniology and phrenology. Congratulations to Katie and Hannah on their new positions as Assistant Professors!
End of conference photo (L-R) Ron Mallon, Şerife Tekin, Paul Roth, Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Matteo Vagelli, Ferris Le, and Jonathan Tsou (photo bombing: Richard Lauer, Katie Petrozzo, and Ling Jin)
Conference dinner
Participants at the VMST-13 conference (L-R): Riana Betzler, Hannah Allen, Kathryn Petrozzo, Alexandra Bradner, Bojana Mladenovic, Jonathan Tsou, Paul Roth, Matteo Vagelli, Ron Mallon, Richard Lauer, Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Ling Jin, and Şerife Tekin
Days 3-4 (May 23-24, 2025): Online Presentations
Henrik Røed Sherling (University of Cambridge) on looping effects are content-dependence
Giulia Russo (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa) on looping effects and psychiatric kinds
Alberto Bardi (University of Turin) on Hacking’s historicist view of mathematics
Kenneth Aizawa (Rutgers University – Newark) on experimental/ entity realism and confirmation in neuroscience
Veronica Vieland (The Ohio State University) on Hacking’s law of likelihood
Conor Barry (Saint Thomas University) on Hacking’s account of objective and subjective probability
Jamie Shaw (Leibniz Universität Hannover) on styles of reasoning, cognitive behavioral therapy, and science policy
Iris Derzelle (University of Paris-East Créteil) on experimental intervention and 19th century French antivivisectionist critiques
Jack Ritchie (University of Cape Town) on Hacking’s metaphilosophy and styles of reasoning
Lucas Marcelo Cavalari Nardi (University of São Paulo) on Hacking’s styles and the mathematization of physics
Luca Sciortino (eCampus University, Italy) on styles in art-history
Bruno Malavolta e Silva (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) on entity realism and embodied understanding
Paweł Kawalec (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) on the legacy of Hacking’s critique of Pascal’s wager
David J. Stump (University of San Francisco): Styles of Reasoning, Relativism and Experimental Realism
