05306cam a2200685 i 4500 ocn905419581 OCoLC 20171025090410.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 150319s2015 nju ob 001 0 eng 2015010827 9781119030584 electronic bk. 1119030587 electronic bk. 9781119030591 electronic bk. 1119030595 electronic bk. 9781119030577 (pbk.) 9781119030614 1119030617 1119030579 NZ1 16090930 DEBBG BV043397630 CHVBK 374496366 CHNEW 000890919 (OCoLC)905419581 (OCoLC)961682675 (OCoLC)962625912 3E8A5CBD-DCD1-4CE2-9124-E38CDC3147B3 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com DLC eng rda DLC DG1 EBLCP N$T CDX E7B IDEBK RECBK OCLCF YDXCP COO TEFOD DEBBG AZK K6U pcc MAIN BD595 PHI 007000 bisacsh 123/.3 23 The philosophy of luck / edited by Duncan Pritchard and Lee John Whittington. [electronic resource] Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer n rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier Metaphilosophy series in philosophy Includes bibliographical references and index. SERIES; TITLEPAGE; COPYRIGHT; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTORY NOTE; CHAPTER 1: LUCK AS RISK AND THE LACK OF CONTROL ACCOUNT OF LUCK; 1. Two Senses of Risk; 2. Event-Relative Risk: Modal and Probabilistic Interpretations; 3. Event-Relative Risk: Modal or Probabilistic?; 4. Agent-Relative Risk as Lack of Control; 5. Four Combinations of Risks, Two Ways of Being Lucky (or Fortunate); 6. An Account of the Notion of Control; 7. The Lack of Control Account of Luck and Its Counterexamples; 8. Conclusions; References; Notes; CHAPTER 2: STROKES OF LUCK; 1. Three Leading Theories of Luck 2. Counterexamples to the Leading Theories3. Lucky Events and Strokes of Luck; 4. The Strokes Account of Lucky Events: Further Support and Defense; 5. Strokes of Luck: An Analysis and Some Important Implications; 6. The Enriched Strokes Account of Lucky Events: Further Support and Defense; 7. The Enriched Strokes Account and the Counterexamples to the Leading Theories; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 3: LUCK ATTRIBUTIONS AND COGNITIVE BIAS; 1. Introduction; 2. Method; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Notes CHAPTER 4: FRANKFURT IN FAKE BARN COUNTRY1.; 2; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 5: LUCK AND FREE WILL; 1. Some Background; 2. Luck and Agent Causation; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 6: YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK; 1. Luck Properly Under Control; 2. Lucky Locutions; 3. "Intervening" and "Environmental" Luck; 4. Moving Forward; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 7: SUBJECT-INVOLVING LUCK; 1. Introduction; 2. Subject-Relative Luck Versus Subject-Involving Luck; 3. Epistemic Luck and Moral Luck Are Instances of Subject-Involving Luck 4. Subject-Involving Luck and Lack of Control Accounts of Luck5. Objections; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 8: THE MODAL ACCOUNT OF LUCK; 1. Anti-Luck Epistemology and the Modal Account of Luck in Outline; 2. Luck, Significance, and Subjectivity; 3. Modality and Luck; 4. Luck and Neighbouring Notions; 5. The Modal Account of Luck and Its Rivals; 6. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Notes; CHAPTER 9: THE MACHINATIONS OF LUCK; 1. Luck's Partners: Fate and Fortune; 2. Luck Is Statistical in Its Dependence on the Prevailing Context 3. Is Luck Objective or Subjective?4. Luck Depends on What Follows; 5. Can One Control Luck?; 6. Can One Measure Luck?; 7. Retrospect; 8. Concluding Worries; Reference; Notes; CHAPTER 10: LUCK, KNOWLEDGE, AND "MERE" COINCIDENCE; 1. Introduction; 2. Having No Luck with "Luck"; 3. Sunrise Cases; 4. Mere Coincidence; 5. Conclusion; References; Notes; CHAPTER 11: THE UNBEARABLE UNCERTAINTY PARADOX; 1. Introduction; 2. A Formal Analysis of the Unbearable Uncertainty Paradox; 3. Heuristics, Biases, and Beyond; 4. A Taxonomy of the UUP; 5. The Phenomenology of the UUP; 6. How Irrational Is the UUP? Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. Chance. Fortune. Success. PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism bisacsh Chance. fast (OCoLC)fst00852032 Fortune. fast (OCoLC)fst00933058 Success. fast (OCoLC)fst01137041 Electronic books. Pritchard, Duncan, joint editor. Print version: Philosophy of luck Hoboken : Wiley, 2015 9781119030577 (DLC) 2015004896 Metaphilosophy series in philosophy. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119030614 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 207944 207944