In recent years we have faced huge uncertainty and unpredictability across the world: Covid-19, political turbulence, climate change and war in Europe, among many other events. Through a historical analysis of worldviews, Peter Haldén provides nuance to the common belief in an uncertain world by sh...

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1. Verfasser:	Haldén, Peter 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
Schlagworte:	Ideengeschichte 1600-2022 Crises (Philosophy) Certainty Forecasting Krise Prognose Philosophie Vorhersagbarkeit Unsicherheit
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	In recent years we have faced huge uncertainty and unpredictability across the world: Covid-19, political turbulence, climate change and war in Europe, among many other events. Through a historical analysis of worldviews, Peter Haldén provides nuance to the common belief in an uncertain world by showing the predictable nature of modern society and arguing that human beings create predictability through norms, laws, trust and collaboration. Haldén shows that, since the Renaissance, two worldviews define Western civilization: first, that the world is knowable and governed by laws, regularities, mechanisms or plan, hence it is possible to control and the future is possible to foresee; second, that the world is governed by chance, impossible to predict and control and therefore shocks and surprises are inevitable. Worlds of Uncertainty argues that between these two extremes lie positions that recognize the principal unpredictability of the world but seek pragmatic ways of navigating through it
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Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (vii, 322 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009392709
DOI:	10.1017/9781009392709