This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this important 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-nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to regard the world as not necessarily deterministic in character. In the same period the idea of human nature was displaced by a model of normal people with laws of dispersion. These two parallel transformations fed into each other, so that chance made the world seem less capricious: it was legitimated because it brought order out of chaos. Combining detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve, The Taming of Chance brings out the relations between philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics and the development of social institutions, and provides a unique and authoritative analysis of the 'probabilisation' of the western world. Artikel-Nr. 9780521380140
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Zustand: New. This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve. Series Editor(s): Skinner, Quentin; Daston, Lorraine; Ross, Dorothy; Tully, James. Series: Ideas in Context. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 590. . 1990. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Artikel-Nr. V9780521380140
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