| Description |
xv, 470 pages ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN |
9780815366591 hardback |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Luck : an introduction / Ian M. Church and Robert J. Hartman -- Aristotle on constitutive, developmental, and resultant moral luck / Nafsika Athanassoulis -- Aristotle on luck, happiness, and Solon's dictum / Sarah Broadie-- The stoics on luck / René Brouwer -- Thomas Aquinas on moral luck / Jeffrey Hause -- Immanuel Kant on moral luck / Kate Moran -- Adam Smith on moral luck and the invisible hand / Craig Smith -- John Stuart Mill on luck and distributive justice / Piers Norris Turner -- History of luck in epistemology / Dani Rabinowitz -- Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams on moral luck / Andrew Latus -- Modal accounts of luck / Duncan Pritchard -- The lack of control account of luck / Wayne Riggs -- The probability account of luck / Nicholas Rescher -- The mixed account of luck / Rik Peels -- Luck and significance / Nathan Ballantyne & Samuel Kampa -- Luck as risk / Fernando Broncano-Berrocal -- Luck and norms / Rachel Mckinnon -- The definition of "luck" and the problem of moral luck / Daniel Statman -- Kinds of moral luck / Carolina Sartorio -- Denying moral luck / Michael J. Zimmerman -- Accepting moral luck / Robert J. Hartman -- The luck objection to libertarianism / Laura W. Ekstrom -- The luck objection to compatibilism / Mirja Pérez de Calleja -- The gettier problem / Ian M. Church -- The problem of environmental luck / Benjamin Jarvis -- Anti-luck epistemology / Tim Black -- The luck/knowledge incompatibility thesis / Stephen Hetherington -- Luck and skepticism / John Greco -- Epistemic luck and the extended mind / J. Adam Carter -- Cognitive biases and dispositions in luck attributions / Steven D. Hales & Jennifer Adrienne Johnson -- Luck and risk / Karl Halvor Teigen -- Emotional responses to luck, risk and uncertainty / Sabine Roeser -- The illusion of control / Anastasia Ejova -- Positive psychology and luck experiences / Matthew D. Smith & Piers Worth -- Luck in science / J.D. Trout -- The philosophy of luck and experimental philosophy / Joe Milburn & Edouard Machery -- Legal luck / Ori J. Herstein -- Feminist approaches to moral luck / Carolyn Mcleod & Jody Tomchishen -- The new problem of religious luck / Guy Axtell -- Theology and luck / Jordan Wessling. |
| Summary |
"Luck permeates our lives, and this raises a number of pressing questions: What is luck? When we attribute luck to people, circumstances, or events, what are we attributing? Do we have any obligations to mitigate the harms done to people who are less fortunate? And to what extent is deserving praise or blame affected by good or bad luck? Although acquiring a true belief by an uneducated guess involves a kind of luck that precludes knowledge, does all luck undermine knowledge? And how accurate are our luck attributions anyway? The academic literature has seen growing, interdisciplinary interest in luck, and this volume brings together and explains the most important areas of this research. It consists of 39 newly commissioned chapters, written by an internationally acclaimed team of philosophers and psychologists, for a readership of students and researchers"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Series |
Routledge handbooks.
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| Library Class |
Philosophy MC550
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| Subject |
Fortune.
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Chance.
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Success.
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| Other Author |
Hartman, Robert J., editor.
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| Alt Title |
Handbook of the philosophy and psychology of luck
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