The myth of luck: philosophy, fate and fortune
"Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune. The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting an unconquerable foe. Tak...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune. The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting an unconquerable foe. Taking us on a guided tour of one of our oldest concepts, we begin in ancient Greece and Rome, considering how Plato, Plutarch, and the Stoics understood luck, before entering the theoretical world of probability and exploring how luck relates to theology, sports, ethics, gambling, knowledge, and present-day psychology. As we travel across traditions, times and cultures, we come to realize that it's not that as soon as we solve one philosophical problem with luck that two more appear, like heads on a hydra, but rather that the monster is altogether mythological. We cannot master luck because there is nothing to defeat: luck is no more than a persistent and troubling illusion. By introducing us to compelling arguments and convincing reasons that explain why there is no such thing as luck, we finally see why in a very real sense we make our own luck, that luck is our own doing. The Myth of Luck helps us to regain our own agency in the world - telling the entertaining story of the philosophy and history of luck along the way."-- |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 222 Seiten 11 Illustrationen, Karte 23 cm |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS List of Figures ix List of Tables x Acknowledgments xi 1 LACHESIS’S LOTTERY AND THE HISTORY OF LUCK 1 The Myth of Er 2 Tuche and Fortuna 6 Submission to Luck: Lucky Charms 10 Rebeilion against Luck: Stoicism 12 The Denial of Luck: All Is Fated 14 Luck and Gambling 19 2 LUCK AND SKILL 27 Slaying Laplace’s Demon 29 A Probability Theory of Luck 32 Winners and Losers 36 Buying Flope on Credit 40 A Skill Equation? 42 Problems with Probability 48 3 FRAGILITY AND CONTROL 57 Invisible Cities of the Possible 58 The Garden of (Logically) Forking Paths 61 A Modal Theory of Luck 65 Transworld 2000 68 Lucky Necessities 73 A Control Theory of Luck 75 Séances and Rubber Hands 77 Wimbledon 2012 81 Synchronic and Diachronic Luck 85
4 MORAL LUCK эз The Kantian Puzzle 94 The Egg of Columbus 100 The Accidental Nazi and the Museum of Medical Oddities 105 Equalizing Fortune 111 Privilege 117 Essential Origins 121 5 KNOWLEDGE AND SERENDIPITY 27 Finding Meno 127 Discover — Forget 130 The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower and Other Skeptical Threats 135 The Overton Window 142 Serendipity 149 Out of Control 153 Divide and Conquer 156 6 THE IRRATIONAL BIASES OF LUCK іез The Frame Shop 163 Dueling Vignettes 169 The (Un)Luckiest Man in the World 175 Sailing Stones and Flying Witches 181 Machine Gambling 187 Against Luck 190 Go Luck Yourself 195 Notes 198 Bibliography of Works Cited 210 Index 220 viii CONTENTS
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CONTENTS List of Figures ix List of Tables x Acknowledgments xi 1 LACHESIS’S LOTTERY AND THE HISTORY OF LUCK 1 The Myth of Er 2 Tuche and Fortuna 6 Submission to Luck: Lucky Charms 10 Rebeilion against Luck: Stoicism 12 The Denial of Luck: All Is Fated 14 Luck and Gambling 19 2 LUCK AND SKILL 27 Slaying Laplace’s Demon 29 A Probability Theory of Luck 32 Winners and Losers 36 Buying Flope on Credit 40 A Skill Equation? 42 Problems with Probability 48 3 FRAGILITY AND CONTROL 57 Invisible Cities of the Possible 58 The Garden of (Logically) Forking Paths 61 A Modal Theory of Luck 65 Transworld 2000 68 Lucky Necessities 73 A Control Theory of Luck 75 Séances and Rubber Hands 77 Wimbledon 2012 81 Synchronic and Diachronic Luck 85
4 MORAL LUCK эз The Kantian Puzzle 94 The Egg of Columbus 100 The Accidental Nazi and the Museum of Medical Oddities 105 Equalizing Fortune 111 Privilege 117 Essential Origins 121 5 KNOWLEDGE AND SERENDIPITY 27 Finding Meno 127 Discover — Forget 130 The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower and Other Skeptical Threats 135 The Overton Window 142 Serendipity 149 Out of Control 153 Divide and Conquer 156 6 THE IRRATIONAL BIASES OF LUCK іез The Frame Shop 163 Dueling Vignettes 169 The (Un)Luckiest Man in the World 175 Sailing Stones and Flying Witches 181 Machine Gambling 187 Against Luck 190 Go Luck Yourself 195 Notes 198 Bibliography of Works Cited 210 Index 220 viii CONTENTS |
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