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" If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code. "
Ian Hacking
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" What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power. "
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Power
Body
Knowledge
" Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else. "
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Want
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" Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed. "
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Facts
Society
Go
" Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. "
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Things
Ideas
Without
" It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules. "
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Decisions
Rules
Important
" One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing. "
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Doing
Up
Power
" Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers. "
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Possible
Owes
Existence
" In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy. "
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How
Rules
You
" All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them. "
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Things
Settling
Matter
" Great books are rare. "
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Rare
Books
Great
" Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian. "
Ian Hacking
People
American
Rhetoric
" The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights. "
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Worry
Social
Bundle
" Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past. "
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New
Each
Us
" I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences. "
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Human
Curiosity
Extraordinary
" Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do. "
Ian Hacking
Live
Life
Spiritual
" Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be. "
Ian Hacking
Seems
Human
Human Race
" One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today. "
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Know
Today
Studies
" Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self. "
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Some
Just
Our
" As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers. "
Ian Hacking
Political
Revolution
Constitution
" Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality. "
Ian Hacking
About
Quantum
Old
" Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. "
Ian Hacking
Future
Corruption
Kind
" A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order. "
Ian Hacking
Obscure
Look
You
" Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing. "
Ian Hacking
Science
Enthusiasm
Writing
" The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum. "
Ian Hacking
Against
Taught
Who
" The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull. "
Ian Hacking
Teach
Public
Evolution
" 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
Truth
Human
Language
" Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world. "
Ian Hacking
History
Looking
World
" 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
Women
Birds
Farm
" I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.' "
Ian Hacking
Curiosity
Dilettante
Governing
" The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work. "
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Work
Walking
Life