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The Challenge of Chance - A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Challenge of Chance - A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: The Frontiers Collection
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This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with
contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of
biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general
history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics,
theology and philosophy. The individual chapters are bound together
by a general introduction followed by an opening chapter that
surveys 2500 years of linguistic, philosophical, and scientific
reflections on chance, coincidence, fortune, randomness, luck and
related concepts. A main conclusion that can be drawn is that, even
after all this time, we still cannot be sure whether chance is a
truly fundamental and irreducible phenomenon, in that certain
events are simply uncaused and could have been otherwise, or
whether it is always simply a reflection of our ignorance. Other
challenges that emerge from this book include a better
understanding of the contextuality and perspectival character of
chance (including its scale-dependence), and the curious fact that,
throughout history (including contemporary science), chance has
been used both as an explanation and as a hallmark of the absence
of explanation. As such, this book challenges the reader to think
about chance in a new way and to come to grips with this endlessly
fascinating phenomenon.
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