The philosophy of luck / edited by Duncan Pritchard and Lee John Whittington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pritchard, Duncan, editor.

Whittington, Lee John, editor.

Series:

Metaphilosophy series in philosophy.

Metaphilosophy series in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chance.

Fortune.

Success.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck. Including work from the leading philosophers writing on luck today, it features discussions of luck from a range of perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science. Although luck has long been thought to play a significant role in many areas of philosophy, luck itself and how it figures in certain core philosophical problems, such as free will, has often been overlooked. This anthology aims to provide a synthesis of existing scholarship on

Contents:

COVER; SERIES; TITLEPAGE; COPYRIGHT; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTORY NOTE; CHAPTER 1: LUCK AS RISK AND THE LACK OF CONTROL ACCOUNT OF LUCK; 1. Two Senses of Risk; 2. Event-Relative Risk: Modal and Probabilistic Interpretations; 3. Event-Relative Risk: Modal or Probabilistic?; 4. Agent-Relative Risk as Lack of Control; 5. Four Combinations of Risks, Two Ways of Being Lucky (or Fortunate); 6. An Account of the Notion of Control; 7. The Lack of Control Account of Luck and Its Counterexamples; 8. Conclusions; References; Notes; CHAPTER 2: STROKES OF LUCK; 1. Three Leading Theories of Luck

2. Counterexamples to the Leading Theories3. Lucky Events and Strokes of Luck; 4. The Strokes Account of Lucky Events: Further Support and Defense; 5. Strokes of Luck: An Analysis and Some Important Implications; 6. The Enriched Strokes Account of Lucky Events: Further Support and Defense; 7. The Enriched Strokes Account and the Counterexamples to the Leading Theories; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 3: LUCK ATTRIBUTIONS AND COGNITIVE BIAS; 1. Introduction; 2. Method; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Notes

CHAPTER 4: FRANKFURT IN FAKE BARN COUNTRY1.; 2; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 5: LUCK AND FREE WILL; 1. Some Background; 2. Luck and Agent Causation; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 6: YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK; 1. Luck Properly Under Control; 2. Lucky Locutions; 3. "Intervening" and "Environmental" Luck; 4. Moving Forward; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 7: SUBJECT-INVOLVING LUCK; 1. Introduction; 2. Subject-Relative Luck Versus Subject-Involving Luck; 3. Epistemic Luck and Moral Luck Are Instances of Subject-Involving Luck

4. Subject-Involving Luck and Lack of Control Accounts of Luck5. Objections; 6. Conclusion; References; Notes; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 8: THE MODAL ACCOUNT OF LUCK; 1. Anti-Luck Epistemology and the Modal Account of Luck in Outline; 2. Luck, Significance, and Subjectivity; 3. Modality and Luck; 4. Luck and Neighbouring Notions; 5. The Modal Account of Luck and Its Rivals; 6. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 9: THE MACHINATIONS OF LUCK; 1. Luck's Partners: Fate and Fortune; 2. Luck Is Statistical in Its Dependence on the Prevailing Context

3. Is Luck Objective or Subjective?4. Luck Depends on What Follows; 5. Can One Control Luck?; 6. Can One Measure Luck?; 7. Retrospect; 8. Concluding Worries; Reference; Notes; CHAPTER 10: LUCK, KNOWLEDGE, AND "MERE" COINCIDENCE; 1. Introduction; 2. Having No Luck with "Luck"; 3. Sunrise Cases; 4. Mere Coincidence; 5. Conclusion; References; Notes; CHAPTER 11: THE UNBEARABLE UNCERTAINTY PARADOX; 1. Introduction; 2. A Formal Analysis of the Unbearable Uncertainty Paradox; 3. Heuristics, Biases, and Beyond; 4. A Taxonomy of the UUP; 5. The Phenomenology of the UUP; 6. How Irrational Is the UUP?

7. Conclusion

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781119030591

1119030595

9781119030584

1119030587

9781119030614

1119030617

OCLC:

905419581