Challenge of Chance

Challenge of Chance

A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities

Landsman, Klaas; van Wolde, Ellen

Springer International Publishing AG

05/2018

276

Mole

Inglês

9783319799247

15 a 20 dias

4336

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Introduction (K. Landsman, E. van Wolde, N. ter Berg).- Conceptual and Historical Reflections on Chance (C. Luethy, 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.
Chance and epistemology;Chance and necessity in history;Chance and randomness in nature;Interpreting coincidence;Psychology of chance;Role of chance in genetics