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Combining detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breath and verve, The Taming of Chance brings out the relations among philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics and the development of social institutions, and provides a unique and authoritative analysis of the "probabilization" of the Western world. Like.
The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context) Taschenbuch – 1. November 1990. In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late ...
16. Sept. 2015 · The taming of chance by Hacking, Ian. Publication date 1990 Topics Chance, Necessity (Philosophy) Publisher Cambridge [England]; New York : Cambridge University Press Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor I ...
26. Okt. 1990 · "The Taming of Chance contains a wealth of information and is very pleasant reading. The various pursuits that impinge on the taming of chance and the development of statistical law are overwhelming. I recommend this book strongly to anyone interested in the development of statistical thought." Peter Guttorp, Journal of the American Statistical ...
Normality is like determinism, both timeless and dated, an idea that in some sense has been with us always, but which can in a moment adopt a completely new form of life. As a word, ‘determinism’ came into use in the 1780s, and assumed its present most common meaning in the 1850s. As a word, ‘normal’ is much older, but it acquired its ...
Abstract. In the dim recesses of ancient history the idea of chance was intertwined with that of fate. What was destined to be, would be. Chance was personified, in the Roman Empire at least, by the Goddess Fortuna, who reigned as the sovereign of cynicism and fickleness. As Howard Patch puts it in his study of this Roman deity, “to men who ...
