The Challenge of Chance (Record no. 188894)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783319263007 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-3-319-26300-7 |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | B67 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | PDA |
| Source | bicssc |
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| Subject category code | SCI075000 |
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 501 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Challenge of Chance |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | A Multidisciplinary Approach from Science and the Humanities / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Klaas Landsman, Ellen van Wolde. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Cham : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Springer International Publishing : |
| -- | Imprint: Springer, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | VII, 276 p. 7 illus., 2 illus. in color. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
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| File type | text file |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | The Frontiers Collection, |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1612-3018 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction (K. Landsman, E. van Wolde, N. ter Berg) -- Conceptual and Historical Reflections on Chance (C. Lüthy, C. R. Palmerino) -- The Mathematical Foundations of Randomness (S. A. Terwijn) -- Randomness and the Madness of Crowds (U. Weitzel, S. Rosenkranz) -- Randomness and the Games of Science (J. J. Goeman) -- The Fine-Tuning Argument: Exploring the Improbability of our Existence (K. Landsman) -- Views on Chance in the Hebrew Bible: Job and Genesis 1 (E. van Wolde).- Happiness and Invulnerability from Chance: Western and Eastern Perspectives (J.M.M.H. Thijssen, D. R. Loy).- The Experience of Coincidence: an Integrated Psychological and Neurocognitive Perspective (M. van Elk, K. Friston, H. Bekkering).- When Chance Strikes: Random Mutational Events as a Cause of Birth Defects and Cancer (H. G. Brunner).- Chance, Variation and the Nature of Causality in Ecological Communities (H. de Kroon, E. Jongejans).- The Size of History: Coincidence, Counterfactuality and Questions of Scale in History (O. Hekster).- Accidental Harm under (Roman) Civil Law (C. Jansen).- Taming Chaos: Chance and Variability in the Language Sciences (R. van Hout, Pieter Muysken) -- & nbsp;Biographies. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open Access |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics, theology and philosophy. The individual chapters are bound together by a general introduction followed by an opening chapter that surveys 2500 years of linguistic, philosophical, and scientific reflections on chance, coincidence, fortune, randomness, luck and related concepts. A main conclusion that can be drawn is that, even after all this time, we still cannot be sure whether chance is a truly fundamental and irreducible phenomenon, in that certain events are simply uncaused and could have been otherwise, or whether it is always simply a reflection of our ignorance. Other challenges that emerge from this book include a better understanding of the contextuality and perspectival character of chance (including its scale-dependence), and the curious fact that, throughout history (including contemporary science), chance has been used both as an explanation and as a hallmark of the absence of explanation. As such, this book challenges the reader to think about chance in a new way and to come to grips with this endlessly fascinating phenomenon. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Philosophy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Human genetics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Epistemology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Philosophy and science. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Probabilities. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Physics. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Cognitive psychology. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Philosophy. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Philosophy of Science. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Epistemology. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Cognitive Psychology. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Human Genetics. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Landsman, Klaas. |
| Relator term | editor. |
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| Personal name | van Wolde, Ellen. |
| Relator term | editor. |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Title | Springer eBooks |
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| Relationship information | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783319262987 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | The Frontiers Collection, |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1612-3018 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26300-7">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26300-7</a> |
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