Foresight / edited by Lawrence W. Sherman and David Allan Feller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sherman, Lawrence W., editor.

Feller, David Allan, editor.

Series:

Darwin College lectures ; 26.

The Darwin College lectures ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forecasting.

Prediction (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 179 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

How do attempts to foresee the future actually change it? For thousands of years, humans have called upon foresight to shape their own actions in order to adapt and survive; as Charles Darwin revealed in his theory of natural selection, the capacity to do just that is key to the origin of species. The uses of foresight, however, can also be applied to help us further our understanding across a variety of realms in everything from warfare, journalism and music, to ancient civilizations, space weather and science. In a thought-provoking new addition to the Darwin College Lecture Series, eight distinguished authors each present an essay from their area of expertise devoted to the theme of 'foresight'. This provocative read reveals foresight as a process that can be identified across all areas of human endeavour, an art which can not only predict the future, but make it anything but inevitable.

Contents:

Foresight in ancient civilisations / Geoffrey Lloyd

Foresight in journalism / Bridget Kendall

Foresight and fiction / Robert Sawyer

Foresight in scientific method / Hasok Chang

Foresight in music / Nicholas Cook

Foreseeing in space weather / Jim Wild

Foresight and self-control / Terrie Moffitt

Foresight in ancient Mesopotamia / Francesca Rochberg.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2016).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

1-316-78442-8

1-316-78634-X

1-316-78666-8

1-316-78698-6

1-316-22530-5

1-316-78730-3

1-316-78826-1