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Sileat omnibus perpetuo divinaudi curiositas indovini e sanzioni nel diritto romano
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ISBN: 8814022194 9788814022197 Year: 1990 Volume: ser. 2a, 26 Publisher: Milan : Giuffrè Editore,

The taming of chance
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ISBN: 0521380146 0521388848 9780521380140 1107702259 1107595622 0511819765 9780511819766 9780521388849 Year: 1990 Volume: 17 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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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.


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La probabilité, le hasard et la certitude
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ISBN: 2130431976 9782130431978 Year: 1990 Volume: 3 Publisher: Paris : Presses Universitaires de France,

The taming of chance
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This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.

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ISBN: 2130433057 9782130433057 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,

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Il Tema della fortuna nella letteratura francese e italiana del Rinascimento : studi in memoria di Enzo Giudici
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ISBN: 8822237684 Year: 1990 Volume: 228 Publisher: Firenze : L.S. Olschki,

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