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1 online resource. 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? edited by Duncan Pritchard and Lee John Whittington. Includes bibliographical references and index. Chance Fortune Success PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism Chance Fortune Success BD595 123/.3 Hoboken : Wiley, 2015 (DLC) 2015004896 9781119030584 1119030587 9781119030591 1119030595 2015010827 3E8A5CBD-DCD1-4CE2-9124-E38CDC3147B3 OverDrive, Inc. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119030614 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119030614 DLC 150319 20171025090410.0 ocn905419581 eng