He has undergraduate degrees from the University of British Columbia and the University of Cambridge, where he was a student at Trinity College, and where he also took his Ph.D. under the direction of Casmir Lewy, a former student of Wittgenstein's.
He has undergraduate degrees from the University of British Columbia (1956) and the University of Cambridge (1958), where he was a student at Trinity College. Hacking also took his Ph.D. at Cambridge (1962), under the direction of Casmir Lewy, a former student of Wittgenstein's.