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Luck : the brilliant randomness of everyday life / / Nicholas Rescher
| Luck : the brilliant randomness of everyday life / / Nicholas Rescher |
| Autore | Rescher Nicholas |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [1995] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 123/.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chance
Fortune Fate and fatalism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8229-7227-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465507403321 |
Rescher Nicholas
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| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [1995] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Luck : the brilliant randomness of everyday life / / Nicholas Rescher
| Luck : the brilliant randomness of everyday life / / Nicholas Rescher |
| Autore | Rescher Nicholas |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [1995] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 123/.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chance
Fortune Fate and fatalism |
| ISBN | 0-8229-7227-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787094803321 |
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Rescher Nicholas
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| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [1995] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Luck : the brilliant randomness of everyday life / / Nicholas Rescher
| Luck : the brilliant randomness of everyday life / / Nicholas Rescher |
| Autore | Rescher Nicholas |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [1995] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina | 123/.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chance
Fortune Fate and fatalism |
| ISBN | 0-8229-7227-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824845303321 |
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Rescher Nicholas
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| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [1995] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The many faces of coincidence / / Laurence Browne
| The many faces of coincidence / / Laurence Browne |
| Autore | Browne Laurence |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Exeter, UK : , : Imprint Academic, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 123/.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Coincidence
Serendipity |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-84540-952-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467101103321 |
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Browne Laurence
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| Exeter, UK : , : Imprint Academic, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The many faces of coincidence / / Laurence Browne
| The many faces of coincidence / / Laurence Browne |
| Autore | Browne Laurence |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Exeter, UK : , : Imprint Academic, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 123/.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Coincidence
Serendipity |
| ISBN | 1-84540-952-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795205503321 |
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Browne Laurence
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| Exeter, UK : , : Imprint Academic, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The many faces of coincidence / / Laurence Browne
| The many faces of coincidence / / Laurence Browne |
| Autore | Browne Laurence |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Exeter, UK : , : Imprint Academic, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 123/.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Coincidence
Serendipity |
| ISBN | 1-84540-952-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821468203321 |
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Browne Laurence
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| Exeter, UK : , : Imprint Academic, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The philosophy of luck / / edited by Duncan Pritchard and Lee John Whittington
| The philosophy of luck / / edited by Duncan Pritchard and Lee John Whittington |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (519 p.) |
| Disciplina | 123/.3 |
| Collana | Metaphilosophy series in philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Chance
Fortune Success |
| ISBN |
1-119-03059-5
1-119-03058-7 1-119-03061-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
COVER; SERIES; TITLEPAGE; COPYRIGHT; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTORY NOTE; CHAPTER 1: LUCK AS RISK AND THE LACK OF CONTROL ACCOUNT OF LUCK; 1. Two Senses of Risk; 2. Event-Relative Risk: Modal and Probabilistic Interpretations; 3. Event-Relative Risk: Modal or Probabilistic?; 4. Agent-Relative Risk as Lack of Control; 5. Four Combinations of Risks, Two Ways of Being Lucky (or Fortunate); 6. An Account of the Notion of Control; 7. The Lack of Control Account of Luck and Its Counterexamples; 8. Conclusions; References; Notes; CHAPTER 2: STROKES OF LUCK; 1. Three Leading Theories of Luck
2. Counterexamples to the Leading Theories3. Lucky Events and Strokes of Luck; 4. The Strokes Account of Lucky Events: Further Support and Defense; 5. Strokes of Luck: An Analysis and Some Important Implications; 6. The Enriched Strokes Account of Lucky Events: Further Support and Defense; 7. The Enriched Strokes Account and the Counterexamples to the Leading Theories; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 3: LUCK ATTRIBUTIONS AND COGNITIVE BIAS; 1. Introduction; 2. Method; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Notes CHAPTER 4: FRANKFURT IN FAKE BARN COUNTRY1.; 2; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 5: LUCK AND FREE WILL; 1. Some Background; 2. Luck and Agent Causation; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 6: YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK; 1. Luck Properly Under Control; 2. Lucky Locutions; 3. "Intervening" and "Environmental" Luck; 4. Moving Forward; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 7: SUBJECT-INVOLVING LUCK; 1. Introduction; 2. Subject-Relative Luck Versus Subject-Involving Luck; 3. Epistemic Luck and Moral Luck Are Instances of Subject-Involving Luck 4. Subject-Involving Luck and Lack of Control Accounts of Luck5. Objections; 6. Conclusion; References; Notes; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 8: THE MODAL ACCOUNT OF LUCK; 1. Anti-Luck Epistemology and the Modal Account of Luck in Outline; 2. Luck, Significance, and Subjectivity; 3. Modality and Luck; 4. Luck and Neighbouring Notions; 5. The Modal Account of Luck and Its Rivals; 6. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 9: THE MACHINATIONS OF LUCK; 1. Luck's Partners: Fate and Fortune; 2. Luck Is Statistical in Its Dependence on the Prevailing Context 3. Is Luck Objective or Subjective?4. Luck Depends on What Follows; 5. Can One Control Luck?; 6. Can One Measure Luck?; 7. Retrospect; 8. Concluding Worries; Reference; Notes; CHAPTER 10: LUCK, KNOWLEDGE, AND "MERE" COINCIDENCE; 1. Introduction; 2. Having No Luck with "Luck"; 3. Sunrise Cases; 4. Mere Coincidence; 5. Conclusion; References; Notes; CHAPTER 11: THE UNBEARABLE UNCERTAINTY PARADOX; 1. Introduction; 2. A Formal Analysis of the Unbearable Uncertainty Paradox; 3. Heuristics, Biases, and Beyond; 4. A Taxonomy of the UUP; 5. The Phenomenology of the UUP; 6. How Irrational Is the UUP? 7. Conclusion |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131321003321 |
| Hoboken : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The philosophy of luck / / edited by Duncan Pritchard and Lee John Whittington
| The philosophy of luck / / edited by Duncan Pritchard and Lee John Whittington |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (519 p.) |
| Disciplina | 123/.3 |
| Collana | Metaphilosophy series in philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Chance
Fortune Success |
| ISBN |
1-119-03059-5
1-119-03058-7 1-119-03061-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
COVER; SERIES; TITLEPAGE; COPYRIGHT; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTORY NOTE; CHAPTER 1: LUCK AS RISK AND THE LACK OF CONTROL ACCOUNT OF LUCK; 1. Two Senses of Risk; 2. Event-Relative Risk: Modal and Probabilistic Interpretations; 3. Event-Relative Risk: Modal or Probabilistic?; 4. Agent-Relative Risk as Lack of Control; 5. Four Combinations of Risks, Two Ways of Being Lucky (or Fortunate); 6. An Account of the Notion of Control; 7. The Lack of Control Account of Luck and Its Counterexamples; 8. Conclusions; References; Notes; CHAPTER 2: STROKES OF LUCK; 1. Three Leading Theories of Luck
2. Counterexamples to the Leading Theories3. Lucky Events and Strokes of Luck; 4. The Strokes Account of Lucky Events: Further Support and Defense; 5. Strokes of Luck: An Analysis and Some Important Implications; 6. The Enriched Strokes Account of Lucky Events: Further Support and Defense; 7. The Enriched Strokes Account and the Counterexamples to the Leading Theories; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 3: LUCK ATTRIBUTIONS AND COGNITIVE BIAS; 1. Introduction; 2. Method; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Notes CHAPTER 4: FRANKFURT IN FAKE BARN COUNTRY1.; 2; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 5: LUCK AND FREE WILL; 1. Some Background; 2. Luck and Agent Causation; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 6: YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK; 1. Luck Properly Under Control; 2. Lucky Locutions; 3. "Intervening" and "Environmental" Luck; 4. Moving Forward; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 7: SUBJECT-INVOLVING LUCK; 1. Introduction; 2. Subject-Relative Luck Versus Subject-Involving Luck; 3. Epistemic Luck and Moral Luck Are Instances of Subject-Involving Luck 4. Subject-Involving Luck and Lack of Control Accounts of Luck5. Objections; 6. Conclusion; References; Notes; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 8: THE MODAL ACCOUNT OF LUCK; 1. Anti-Luck Epistemology and the Modal Account of Luck in Outline; 2. Luck, Significance, and Subjectivity; 3. Modality and Luck; 4. Luck and Neighbouring Notions; 5. The Modal Account of Luck and Its Rivals; 6. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 9: THE MACHINATIONS OF LUCK; 1. Luck's Partners: Fate and Fortune; 2. Luck Is Statistical in Its Dependence on the Prevailing Context 3. Is Luck Objective or Subjective?4. Luck Depends on What Follows; 5. Can One Control Luck?; 6. Can One Measure Luck?; 7. Retrospect; 8. Concluding Worries; Reference; Notes; CHAPTER 10: LUCK, KNOWLEDGE, AND "MERE" COINCIDENCE; 1. Introduction; 2. Having No Luck with "Luck"; 3. Sunrise Cases; 4. Mere Coincidence; 5. Conclusion; References; Notes; CHAPTER 11: THE UNBEARABLE UNCERTAINTY PARADOX; 1. Introduction; 2. A Formal Analysis of the Unbearable Uncertainty Paradox; 3. Heuristics, Biases, and Beyond; 4. A Taxonomy of the UUP; 5. The Phenomenology of the UUP; 6. How Irrational Is the UUP? 7. Conclusion |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828784303321 |
| Hoboken : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A theory of physical probability / / Richard Johns
| A theory of physical probability / / Richard Johns |
| Autore | Johns Richard <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
| Disciplina | 123/.3 |
| Collana | Toronto Studies in Philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Chance
Causation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4426-7050-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Logic and Probability -- 3. Causation and Determination -- 4. Physical Chance -- 5. Classical Stochastic Mechanics -- 6. Correlation -- 7. The State Vector -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456203503321 |
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Johns Richard <1968->
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| Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A theory of physical probability / / Richard Johns
| A theory of physical probability / / Richard Johns |
| Autore | Johns Richard <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
| Disciplina | 123/.3 |
| Collana | Toronto Studies in Philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Chance
Causation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4426-7050-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""CONTENTS""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 Motivation for the Causal Theory of Chance""; ""1.2 Problems for the Causal Theory""; ""1.3 Advantages of the Causal Theory""; ""1.4 Overview of the Book""; ""2 Logic and Probability""; ""2.1 The Objections to Logical Probability""; ""2.2 The Nature of Logical Probability""; ""2.3 Measuring Degrees of Belief""; ""2.4 The Axioms of Probability""; ""2.5 Relative Probabilities""; ""2.6 Interval Probabilities""; ""2.7 The Symmetry Axiom""; ""3 Causation and Determination""; ""3.1 Causation""; ""3.2 Determination""
""3.3 How Are Causation and Determination Related?""""4 Physical Chance""; ""4.1 The Definition of Chance""; ""4.2 Chance Is Relativized to a System""; ""4.3 Lewis's Objections""; ""4.4 A Proof of Miller's Principle""; ""4.5 The Objections of Howson and Urbach""; ""4.6 Chance and Relative Frequency""; ""4.7 Frequency Theories of Probability""; ""4.8 Conditional Chances""; ""5 Classical Stochastic Mechanics""; ""5.1 What Is CSM Good for?""; ""5.2 The Law Function""; ""5.3 Relevance and Correlation""; ""5.4 Chance in a Composite System""; ""5.5 Sub-histories, States, and Markov Systems"" ""5.6 Boundary Conditions and Time""""5.7 The Arrow of Time""; ""6 Correlation""; ""6.1 Classical and Quantum Correlation""; ""6.2 Reactions to EPR""; ""6.3 Beyond Postulate CSM3""; ""7 The State Vector""; ""7.1 The Problem""; ""7.2 Large and Small Systems""; ""7.3 Chance for Small Systems""; ""7.4 Summary""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z"" |
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Johns Richard <1968->
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| Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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