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The Challenge of Chance = A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Challenge of Chance/ edited by Klaas Landsman, Ellen van Wolde.
Reminder of title:	A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities /
other author:	Landsman, Klaas.
Description:	VII, 276 p. 7 illus., 2 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Philosophy and science. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26300-7
ISBN:	9783319263007

The Challenge of Chance = A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities /
The Challenge of ChanceA Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities /[electronic resource] :edited by Klaas Landsman, Ellen van Wolde. - 1st ed. 2016. - VII, 276 p. 7 illus., 2 illus. in color.online resource. - The Frontiers Collection,1612-3018. - The Frontiers Collection,.

Introduction (K. Landsman, E. van Wolde, N. ter Berg) -- Conceptual and Historical Reflections on Chance (C. Lüthy, C. R. Palmerino) -- The Mathematical Foundations of Randomness (S. A. Terwijn) -- Randomness and the Madness of Crowds (U. Weitzel, S. Rosenkranz) -- Randomness and the Games of Science (J. J. Goeman) -- The Fine-Tuning Argument: Exploring the Improbability of our Existence (K. Landsman) -- Views on Chance in the Hebrew Bible: Job and Genesis 1 (E. van Wolde).- Happiness and Invulnerability from Chance: Western and Eastern Perspectives (J.M.M.H. Thijssen, D. R. Loy).- The Experience of Coincidence: an Integrated Psychological and Neurocognitive Perspective (M. van Elk, K. Friston, H. Bekkering).- When Chance Strikes: Random Mutational Events as a Cause of Birth Defects and Cancer (H. G. Brunner).- Chance, Variation and the Nature of Causality in Ecological Communities (H. de Kroon, E. Jongejans).- The Size of History: Coincidence, Counterfactuality and Questions of Scale in History (O. Hekster).- Accidental Harm under (Roman) Civil Law (C. Jansen).- Taming Chaos: Chance and Variability in the Language Sciences (R. van Hout, Pieter Muysken) -- & nbsp;Biographies.

Open Access

This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics, theology and philosophy. The individual chapters are bound together by a general introduction followed by an opening chapter that surveys 2500 years of linguistic, philosophical, and scientific reflections on chance, coincidence, fortune, randomness, luck and related concepts. A main conclusion that can be drawn is that, even after all this time, we still cannot be sure whether chance is a truly fundamental and irreducible phenomenon, in that certain events are simply uncaused and could have been otherwise, or whether it is always simply a reflection of our ignorance. Other challenges that emerge from this book include a better understanding of the contextuality and perspectival character of chance (including its scale-dependence), and the curious fact that, throughout history (including contemporary science), chance has been used both as an explanation and as a hallmark of the absence of explanation. As such, this book challenges the reader to think about chance in a new way and to come to grips with this endlessly fascinating phenomenon.

ISBN: 9783319263007

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-26300-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

555818
Philosophy and science.

LC Class. No.: B67

Dewey Class. No.: 501

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