It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences. Ian Hacking Read Quote
Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing. Ian Hacking Read Quote
Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century. Ian Hacking Read Quote
The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work. Ian Hacking Read Quote
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings. Ian Hacking Read Quote
Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results – especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries. Ian Hacking Read Quote
Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords. Ian Hacking Read Quote
Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them. Ian Hacking Read Quote
