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Author(s)Ian Hacking
PublisherCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN9780521388849
Pages282
BindingPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publish YearNovember 2015

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Taming Of Chance by Ian Hacking

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 bestselling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the latenineteenth 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.


Mathematics & Statistics
Mental Mathematics

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