The Taming of Chance读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 284页 | 2020 | Cambridge University Press |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 90.00 | 2020-02-20 … | 2020-03-09 … | 16 |
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 the best-selling The 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. In the same period the idea of human nature was displaced by a model of normal people with laws of dispersion. These two parallel transformations fed into each other, so that chance made the world seem less capricious: it was legitimated because it brought order out of chaos. Professor Hacking argues that these developments have led to a new style of scientific reasoning gaining its hold upon us. The greater the level of indeterminism in our conception of the world and of people, the more we expect control and intervention in our lives, and the less we expect freedom. Combining detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve, The Taming of Chance brings out the relations between philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics and the development of social institutions, and provides a unique and authoritative analysis of the 'probabilisation' of the western world.
作者简介作者简介
哈金为加拿大多伦多
大学哲学系、科学技术哲
学与科技史研究所教授。
1962年获剑桥大学博士学
位。曾在剑桥大学、斯坦
福大学任教。哈金长期从
事科学哲学和科学史研究，
著述影响甚大，并被广泛
引用。1975年出版的《概
率的突现》，成为学术畅
销书。《驯服偶然》同样
获得巨大成功，问世不久
便被评为“20世纪100部英
语写成的最佳作品”之一。
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