The Challenge of Chance A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities /
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 ch...
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.