Rethinking the work of a philosopher in the light of his influences is a task that requires assuming the different meanings that the notion of influence entails: the selection of “antecessors”, with which the philosopher configures his own canon, his appropriations of the chosen works, as well as the reappropriations that the critical analysts carry out in relation to the receptions and appropriations of the philosopher’s work. Traditions are causal relations constructed from the present. This paper presents an analysis of the ways in which María Laura Martínez Rodríguez appropriates the work of Ian Hacking to account for how the Canadian philosopher links his work with that of Michel Foucault. At the same time, our reception of Martínez Ro...