TY - BOOK ID - 27783731 TI - The empire of chance PY - 1989 SN - 0521331153 9780521398381 9780511720482 9780521331159 052139838X 1107384729 1461949068 1306148243 1107394848 1107383617 1107387221 1107390052 0511720483 1107398479 9781461949060 9781107387225 9781107384729 9781107383616 9781107394841 9781306148245 9781107390058 9781107398474 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - 510.21 KW - 168.521 KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Science KW - -Mathematics KW - Statistical inference KW - Statistics, Mathematical KW - Statistics KW - Probabilities KW - Sampling (Statistics) KW - 168.521 Natuurwetenschappen. Exacte wetenschappen KW - Natuurwetenschappen. Exacte wetenschappen KW - 510.21 General philosophical considerations. Critical aspects. Logical antinomies KW - General philosophical considerations. Critical aspects. Logical antinomies KW - Natural science KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Philosophy KW - Statistical methods KW - Mathematics KW - Normal science KW - Philosophy of science KW - Probability KW - Combinations KW - Chance KW - Least squares KW - Risk KW - Mathematical statistics. KW - Probabilities. KW - Philosophy. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Science - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:27783731 AB - The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact in biology, physics and psychology. Themes recur - determinism, inference, causality, free will, evidence, the shifting meaning of probability - but in dramatically different disciplinary and historical contexts. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centres on how these technical innovations remade our conceptions of nature, mind and society. Written by an interdisciplinary team of historians and philosophers, this readable, lucid account keeps technical material to an absolute minimum. It is aimed not only at specialists in the history and philosophy of science, but also at the general reader and scholars in other disciplines. ER -