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Tempting Fate : A Philosophical Guide to Risk, Luck, and a Meaningful Life.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pritchard, Duncan.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A leading philosopher explains how risk-taking can help us live authentic and flourishing lives We take risks every day--perhaps not the extreme, dangling-off-the-side-of-a-mountain kind of risks, but risks nonetheless, in decisions about careers, marriage, children, moving house, and other matters.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. "Death Is Always Beside You on the Mountain
- A Puzzle About Risk
- Risk and Probability
- Looking Ahead
- 2. Thinking About Risk
- Disentangling How We Talk About Risk
- Perceived Risk and Actual Risk
- Keeping Track of the Variables
- Taking Stock
- 3. How Not to Solve Our Puzzle
- Health and Safety
- Illusory Risk
- Risk-Reward
- Summing Up
- 4. Authenticity Risk
- The Universality of Our Puzzle
- Flourishing and the Meaningful Life
- Authenticity Risks
- Moral Luck and Authenticity Risk
- Authenticity Risk and Honnold's Ascent
- Broadening Our Puzzle
- 5. Fragility
- Resolving Our Puzzle
- Lotteries and Fragility
- Fragility and Risk
- Our Puzzle About Risk, Redux
- Reasonable Risks
- Admirable Risks
- Authenticity Risk, Redux
- 6. Pushing One's Luck
- Luck, Risk, and Perspective
- The Fragility Theory of Luck
- How Luck and Risk Differ
- Luck, Risk, and Subjectivity
- How to Earn Your Good Luck
- 7. The Importance of Achievements
- The Nature of Achievement
- The Value of Achievements
- Achievements and Luck
- Risky Achievements
- 8. Knowledge and Fragility
- Knowledge Excludes Fragility
- Epistemic Achievements and Veritic Luck
- Knowledge and Epistemic Achievement
- Knowledge and Risk
- The Nature of Knowledge
- 9. Risk in the Wild: Existential, Sporting, Aesthetic, and Legal Risk
- Existential Risk
- Sporting Risk
- Aesthetic Risk
- The Arithmetic of Criminal Justice
- Legal Evidence and Legal Risk
- 10. Tempting Fate
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pritchard, Duncan Tempting Fate
- ISBN:
- 9780691259574
- OCLC:
- 1602628012
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