The Taming of Chance

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.

Author: Ian Hacking
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/31/1990
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780521388849
ISBN10: 0521388848
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
- Philosophy | Free Will & Determinism
- Political Science | History & Theory | General