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The taming of chance / Ian Hacking.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hacking, Ian.
- Series:
- Ideas in context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chance.
- Necessity (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The argument
- The doctrine of necessity
- Public amateurs, secret bureaucrats
- Bureaux
- The sweet despotism of reason
- The quantum of sickness
- The granary of science
- Suicide is a kind of madness
- The experimental basis of the philosophy of legislation
- Facts without authenticity, without detail, without control, and without value
- By what majority?
- The law of large numbers
- Regimental chests
- Society prepares the crimes
- The astronomical conception of society
- The mineralogical conception of society.
- The most ancient nobility
- Cassirer's thesis
- The normal state
- As real as cosmic forces
- The autonomy of statistical law
- A chapter from Prussian statistics
- A universe of change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-256) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0511819765
- 9780511819766
- Publisher Number:
- 99961330648
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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