Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science

By I. Hacking. 1983

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A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations (2020, background): “In contrast to modernist ‘spectator theories’ of knowledge (Hacking 1983), where humans obtain knowledge about the world by viewing it ‘from the out-side’, relational approaches posit that ‘we know because we are of the world’ (Barad 2007, p. 185).”
What do business models do? Narratives, calculation and market exploration (2009, unknown): “The authors’ comprehensive analysis allows an understanding of models as instruments for both representing and intervening (Hacking, 1983).”
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Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine (2003, background): “(Re)naming is creating; representing is intervening (Hacking 1983).”
Towards Accountability for Machine Learning Datasets: Practices from Software Engineering and Infrastructure (2020, background): “d, and the effects were understood before the mission. Nounknown programming errors were discovered during a mission.” [64] (original emphasis). 6Especially since academia values theory over practice [57, 61]. 7These currently seem most common in NLP, e.g., [78, 93, 102, 117, 146, 149, 150, 152]. , ”