Ian Hacking

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1. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, The Politics of Truth (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

2. Ian Hacking

   Author of The Social Construction of What?, An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic, Historical Ontology

3. W. V. Quine

   Author of From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-Philosophical Essays, Methods of Logic, Ontological Relativity

4. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy (Ideas in Context)

5. Giorgio Agamben

   Author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, State of Exception, The Open: Man and Animal

6. Hilary Putnam

   Author of Reason, Truth and History, Representation and Reality, Realism and Reason

7. Bas C. van Fraassen

   Author of The Scientific Image, The Empirical Stance (The Terry Lectures Series), Laws and Symmetry (Clarendon Paperbacks)

8. Judith Butler

   Author of The Psychic Life of Power, Giving an Account of Oneself, Feminists Theorize the Political

9. Steven Shapin

   Author of The Scientific Revolution, Leviathan and the Air-Pump, A Social History of Truth : Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England

10. Bruno Latour

    Author of We Have Never Been Modern, Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society, Laboratory Life

11. Bernard Williams

    Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (Canto), Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57)

12. Thomas S. Kuhn

    Author of The Copernican Revolution, The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change, The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview

13. Michael Dummett

    Author of Frege: Philosophy of Language, Second Edition, Truth and Other Enigmas, Origins of Analytical Philosophy

14. Susan Haack

    Author of Philosophy of Logics, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays, Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology

15. Carl Schmitt

    Author of The Concept of the Political, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

16. Wendy Brown

    Author of States of Injury, Politics Out of History.

17. Saul Kripke

    Author of Naming and Necessity, Wittgenstein; On Rules and Private Language; An Elementary Exposition

18. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    Author of Philosophical Investigations, On Certainty, Zettel

19. Jürgen Habermas

    Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Knowledge and Human Interests, The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society (The Theory of Communicative Act

20. Nelson Goodman

    Author of Ways of Worldmaking, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast