A Matter Of Luck
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A Matter Of Luck
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Author : James M Killeen
language : en
Publisher: Barzipan Publishing
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A Matter Of Luck written by James M Killeen and has been published by Barzipan Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
What is luck? The chances are you don’t really know, but you probably believe in it, and I bet you invoke the word every day of your life ... ‘Bad luck!’ ‘That was lucky!’ ‘You should be so lucky!’ ‘What a lucky escape!’– said with varying degrees of intensity, relief, sarcasm, amusement, incredulity or disgust. But what is luck? This book tries to determine what luck is, how it operates in our lives, and how far the individual is at its mercy – favoured by good luck or cursed by bad? Is there any justice or fair play in life, or are these merely human concepts that don’t exist in the laws governing the universe? Whatever you think you believe, by the time you have read this book, the odds are that you will have changed your mind. James M Killeen’s analysis ranges from Astrology to Zoroastrianism and everything in between: the big bang and the butterfly effect, destiny and determinism, fortune-telling and feng shui, gambling and game theory, miracles and Murphy’s Law, oracles and ordeals, philosophy and religion, precognition and the placebo effect, serendipity and synchronicity. A Matter of Luck is a highly readable yet thought-provoking work, interspersed with illuminating and amusing examples to illlustrate each facet of this fascinating subject: for example, the true stories of the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, King Umberto and the chef, James Dean’s car, and the woman who simultaneously chose the winning numbers for both the Massachusetts and Rhode Island lotteries (although the numbers she chose for the Rhode Island lottery were the winning numbers for the Massachusetts lottery, and vice versa). Lucky or unlucky – you decide, if you can.
Luck A Matter Of Attitude
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Author : Fortunato Buenaventura
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-07-24
Luck A Matter Of Attitude written by Fortunato Buenaventura and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-24 with Self-Help categories.
Good luck is within everybody's reach. We all have exactly the same amount of luck. It just happens that a few people know how to awaken their luck and put it to work for their benefit, while most persons keep their luck asleep, crunched under a heavy pile of fears, hesitations, and poor attitudes. In this book you will find a simple meth-od to reverse your ill luck and become a fortunate human being. After putting its easy to follow advice into practice you will start acting as a powerful magnet that will attract even the most improbable positive happenings.
Luck S Mischief
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Author : Ishtiyaque Haji
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-14
Luck S Mischief written by Ishtiyaque Haji and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-14 with Philosophy categories.
Something is subject to luck if it is beyond our control. In this book, Haji shows that luck detrimentally affects both moral obligation and moral responsibility. He argues that factors influencing the way we are, together with considerations that link motivation and ability to perform intentional actions, frequently preclude our being able to do otherwise. Since obligation requires that we can do otherwise, luck compromises the range of what is morally obligatory for us. This result, together with principles that conjoin responsibility and obligation, is then exploited to derive the further skeptical conclusion that behavior for which we are morally responsible is limited as well. Throughout these explorations, Haji makes extensive use of concrete cases to test the limits of how we should understand free will moral responsibility, blameworthiness, determinism, and luck itself.
Epistemic Luck
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Author : Duncan Pritchard
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2005-03-10
Epistemic Luck written by Duncan Pritchard and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-10 with Philosophy categories.
One of the key supposed 'platitudes' of contemporary epistemology is the claim that knowledge excludes luck. One can see the attraction of such a claim, in that knowledge is something that one can take credit for - it is an achievement of sorts - and yet luck undermines genuine achievement. The problem, however, is that luck seems to be an all-pervasive feature of our epistemic enterprises, which tempts us to think that either scepticism is true and that we don't know very much, or else that luck is compatible with knowledge after all. In this book, Duncan Pritchard argues that we do not need to choose between these two austere alternatives, since a closer examination of what is involved in the notion of epistemic luck reveals varieties of luck that are compatible with knowledge possession and varieties that aren't. Moreover, Pritchard shows that a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between luck and knowledge can cast light on many of the most central topics in contemporary epistemology. These topics include: the externalism/internalism distinction; virtue epistemology; the problem of scepticism; metaepistemological scepticism; modal epistemology; and the problem of moral luck. All epistemologists will need to come to terms with Pritchard's original and incisive contribution.
The Philosophy Of Luck
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Author : Duncan Pritchard
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-06-02
The Philosophy Of Luck written by Duncan Pritchard and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with Science categories.
This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck Offers an in-depth examination of the concept of luck, which has often been overlooked in philosophical study Includes discussions of luck from a range of philosophical perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science Examines the role of luck in core philosophical problems, such as free will Features work from the main philosophers writing on luck today
The Myth Of Luck
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Author : Steven D. Hales
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-07-23
The Myth Of Luck written by Steven D. Hales and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-23 with Philosophy categories.
Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune. The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting an unconquerable foe. Taking us on a guided tour of one of our oldest concepts, we begin in ancient Greece and Rome, considering how Plato, Plutarch, and the Stoics understood luck, before entering the theoretical world of probability and exploring how luck relates to theology, sports, ethics, gambling, knowledge, and present-day psychology. As we travel across traditions, times and cultures, we come to realize that it's not that as soon as we solve one philosophical problem with luck that two more appear, like heads on a hydra, but rather that the monster is altogether mythological. We cannot master luck because there is nothing to defeat: luck is no more than a persistent and troubling illusion. By introducing us to compelling arguments and convincing reasons that explain why there is no such thing as luck, we finally see why in a very real sense we make our own luck, that luck is our own doing. The Myth of Luck helps us to regain our own agency in the world - telling the entertaining story of the philosophy and history of luck along the way.
The Good Luck
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Author : Rolando José Olivo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-08
The Good Luck written by Rolando José Olivo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with categories.
Good and bad luck are very powerful beliefs that are deeply rooted within the modern culture, as a result of multiple practical, religious and superstitious ideas, that have evolved throughout history. However, is good luck a matter of superstitions, random circumstances or attitudes and skills? Is there good luck? Considering that the superstitious thought is proper of the human being, it can be debated whether good luck is a matter exclusively of superstitions, random circumstances or personal attitudes and skills, or if it depends on all these factors (being some more important than others, or if almost all of these are mainly influenced by random circumstances). Likewise, it is obvious that this position of the majority of scientists, academics and researchers (backed by Judeo-Christian beliefs) is correct: there is no luck. Therefore, it is everyone's responsibility to be aware that good and bad luck are inventions of the human mind (which try to justify inexplicable and uncontrollable events), make the best decisions, and act correctly, in order to have a satisfactory life, achieving various personal and professional goals.
Strokes Of Luck
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Author : Gerald Lang
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Strokes Of Luck written by Gerald Lang and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Philosophy categories.
Gerald Lang examines the role of luck in moral and political philosophy. He argues that luck plays a positive role in determining the moral character of acts and also of agents. In political questions of justice, he argues against attempts to neutralise luck, and in favour of an alternative approach that emphasises fairness.
Hard Luck
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Author : Neil Levy
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-06-30
Hard Luck written by Neil Levy and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-30 with Philosophy categories.
The concept of luck has played an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility, yet participants in these debates have relied upon an intuitive notion of what luck is. Neil Levy develops an account of luck, which is then applied to the free will debate. He argues that the standard luck objection succeeds against common accounts of libertarian free will, but that it is possible to amend libertarian accounts so that they are no more vulnerable to luck than is compatibilism. But compatibilist accounts of luck are themselves vulnerable to a powerful luck objection: historical compatibilisms cannot satisfactorily explain how agents can take responsibility for their constitutive luck; non-historical compatibilisms run into insurmountable difficulties with the epistemic condition on control over action. Levy argues that because epistemic conditions on control are so demanding that they are rarely satisfied, agents are not blameworthy for performing actions that they take to be best in a given situation. It follows that if there are any actions for which agents are responsible, they are akratic actions; but even these are unacceptably subject to luck. Levy goes on to discuss recent non-historical compatibilisms, and argues that they do not offer a viable alternative to control-based compatibilisms. He suggests that luck undermines our freedom and moral responsibility no matter whether determinism is true or not.
Luck Theory
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Author : Nicholas Rescher
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-01-22
Luck Theory written by Nicholas Rescher and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-22 with Mathematics categories.
This book is an original—the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck. Setting out from the principle that luck can be measured by the gap between reasonable expectation and eventual realization, the book develops step-by-step a mathematical theory that accommodates the entire range of our pre-systematic understanding of the way in which luck functions in human affairs. In so moving from explanatory exposition to mathematical treatment, the book provides a clear and accessible account of the way in which luck assessment enters into the calculations of rational decision theory.