Ian Hacking The Taming of Chance (Paperback) Ideas in Context (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Taming of ChanceCondition: NewEAN: 9780521388849ISBN: 9780521388849Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/31/1990Description: In this important study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The 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. In the same period the idea of human nature was displaced by a model of normal people with laws of dispersion. These two parallel transformations fed into each other, so that chance made the world seem less capricious: it was legitimated because it brought order out of chaos. Combining detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve, The Taming of Chance brings out the relations between philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics and the development of social institutions, and provides a unique and authoritative analysis of the 'probabilisation' of the western world.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 226mmItem Length: 150mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 430gAuthor: Ian HackingGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Ideas in ContextRelease Year: 1990 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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