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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context)
ISBN: 9780521388849
出版社: Cambridge University Press
出版年: 1990-08-31
页数: 277
定价: USD 23.99
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Review
"Hacking has an uncanny instinct for honing in upon some critical and novel feature of the past and showing how seemingly disparate facts fall into place once we grant him his central category. He does not pretend to make a complete survey of his topic. Again like an archaelogist, he respects the fragmentary record as one of the limitations of the trade. But what he digs up and deciphers never fails to engage and illuminate." Science
"My summary hardly does justice to the richness of Hacking's ideas or his many asides, like the striking comparison of Peirce and Friedrich Nietzsche....Hacking's meticulous scholarship, his comprehension of various areas of learning, and his commitment to linear exposition seem to me to exceed Foucault's." Bruce Kuklick, American Historical Review
"The Taming of Chance contains a wealth of information and is very pleasant reading. The various pursuits that impinge on the taming of chance and the development of statistical law are overwhelming. I recommend this book strongly to anyone interested in the development of statistical thought." Peter Guttorp, Journal of the American Statistical Association
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.
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。
