A Social Philosophy of Science. Receptions and Appropriations in and from Ian Hacking’s Work: On Texture in the Work of Ian Hacking: Michel Foucault as the Guiding Thread of Hacking’s Thinking, by María Laura Martínez Rodríguez

Abstract

Rethinking the work of a philosopher in the light of his influences is a task that requires assuming the different meanings that the notion of influence entails: the selection of “antecessors”, with which the philosopher configures his own canon, his appropriations of the chosen works, as well as the reappropriations that the critical analysts carry out in relation to the receptions and appropriations of the philosopher’s work. Traditions are causal relations constructed from the present. This paper presents an analysis of the ways in which María Laura Martínez Rodríguez appropriates the work of Ian Hacking to account for how the Canadian philosopher links his work with that of Michel Foucault. At the same time, our reception of Martínez Rodríguez’s book highlights the approximations of Hacking’s philosophy to the social studies of science, neo-materialist philosophy and historical epistemology.