ISBN 9780521388849 | 0521388848 Textbooks - "The Taming of Chance Ideas in Context" by Ian Quentin Ian Hacking Hacking Ian Hacking Ian Ian Hacking and Skinner

Authors: Ian - Quentin - Ian Hacking - Hacking Ian - Hacking - Ian; Ian - Hacking and Skinner
ISBN 10: 0521388848
ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Edition: 1
Release: August 31, 1990
Format: Paperback (279 pages)
List Price: $28.99
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Tags: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Consciousness & Thought,

Book Description:
In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to regard the world as not necessarily deterministic in character. Combining detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breath and verve, The Taming of Chance brings out the relations among philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics and the development of social institutions, and provides a unique and authoritative analysis of the "probabilization" of the Western world.

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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context)