The Taming of Chance

Hacking, Ian

ISBN 10: 0521388848 / ISBN 13: 9780521388849

Published by Cambridge University Pr., 1990

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0521388848. 1990, clean copy, light shelfwear, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Taming of Chance
• Publisher: Cambridge University Pr.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521388848
• ISBN 13: 9780521388849
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: good
• Seller catalogs:
  • PHILOSOPHY

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Synopsis

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 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. 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.

From the Back Cover

In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaking in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability.