A lighthearted, entertaining and fateful exploration of luck in everyday life.
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Examines luck from a psychological perspective, drawing on interviews and experiments with more than four hundred volunteers to conclude that luck is a learned ability, in a guide that introduces four principles regarding luck.
Examines luck from a psychological perspective, drawing on interviews and experiments with more than four hundred volunteers to conclude that luck is a learned ability, in a guide that introduces four principles regarding luck.
Gerald Lang examines the role of luck in moral and political philosophy. He argues that luck plays a positive role in determining the moral character of acts and also of agents. In political questions of justice, he argues against attempts to neutralise luck, and in favour of an…
"Strokes of Luck offers a large-scale treatment of the role of luck in our judgements about blameworthiness and responsibility, in moral philosophy, and in principles of distributive justice, in political philosophy. It takes an 'anti-anti-luckist' stance on these matters, and i…
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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 colo…
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 colo…
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