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 ...
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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.
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Add this copy of The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science to cart. $31.00, very good condition, Sold by Univ of Dallas Library rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Irving, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Very good. 1989 hardcover. From "Ideas in Context" series. DJ is "Good"--is shelf worn at edges and has yellowing on inside flaps. Green boards have light shelf wear on edges. Hinges are tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. Not ex-library.
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Very Good. Size: 5x0x8; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xvii, 340 pages, illustrations, 23 cm. 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. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).
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Good jacket. First Edition. Good first edition in Good dust jacket; DJ has delamination, soiling, and edgewear. Glue staining at front hinge. Used with wesr; some markings / underlining.
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