Luck: the brilliant randomness of everyday life
In Luck, one of our most eminent philosophers offers a realistic view of the nature and operation of luck to help us come to sensible terms with life in a chaotic world. Differentiating luck from fate (inexorable destiny) and fortune (mere chance), Nicholas Rescher weaves a colorful tapestry of historical examples, from the use of lots in the Old and New Testaments to Thomas Gatakerʹs treatise of 1619 on the great English lottery of 1612, from casino gambling to playing the stock market. Becaus…
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- Full title :Luck : the brilliant randomness of everyday life / Nicholas Rescher.
Summary
In Luck, one of our most eminent philosophers offers a realistic view of the nature and operation of luck to help us come to sensible terms with life in a chaotic world. Differentiating luck from fate (inexorable destiny) and fortune (mere chance), Nicholas Rescher weaves a colorful tapestry of historical examples, from the use of lots in the Old and New Testaments to Thomas Gatakerʹs treatise of 1619 on the great English lottery of 1612, from casino gambling to playing the stock market. Because we are creatures of limited knowledge who do and must make decisions in the light of incomplete information, Rescher argues, we are inevitably at the mercy of luck. It behooves us to learn more about it.
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- Publication Date:©1995.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Pittsburgh Press
- Place of Publication:Pittsburgh
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1995.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 237 pages ; : 18 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0822957558, 9780822957553
- oclc:ocm50527815
- LC Classification:BD595
- Dewey Decimal:123.3
Table of Contents
Introduction ---- I. Enigmas of Chance --- II. Failures of Foresight --- III. The Different Faces of Luck --- IV. An Infinity of Accidents --- V. Visions of Sugarplums --- VI. The Philosophers of Gambling --- VII. The Musings of Moralists --- VIII. Can the Tiger Be Tamed? --- IX. Life in a Halfway House ---- Appendix: taking luckʹs measure.
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