The luck factors -- What drives luck -- Learning -- Performing -- Purpose -- People -- Opportunity.
An irreverent look at how randomness influences our lives, and how our successes and failures are far more dependent on chance events than we recognize.
Agency, freedom, and moral responsibility
Agency, freedom, and moral responsibility
This collection consists of original contributions that represent the state of the art of philosophical research on agency, free will, and moral responsibility. It should be of interest to both specialists and students with research interests in the philosophy of action and mora…
This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.
In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nine…
This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.
This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.
"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. ... [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther's ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church." 'Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation…