The Taming of Chance

by Hacking, Ian
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ISBN: 9780521388849
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Overview

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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Hacking, Ian
  • ISBN: 9780521388849
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.50
  • Number Of Pages: 282
  • Publication Year: 1990
Language: English

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