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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団体著者: SpringerLink (Online service)
その他の著者: Landsman, Klaas (編集者), van Wolde, Ellen (編集者)
フォーマット: 電子媒体 eBook
言語:英語
出版事項: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
シリーズ:The Frontiers Collection,
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オンライン・アクセス:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26300-7
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目次:
  • 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.