{"product_id":"the-taming-of-chance-hardback-9780521380140","title":"The Taming of Chance (Hardback) 9780521380140","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Taming of Chance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIan Hacking (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521380140, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 October 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 2.7 cm, 0.534 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this important 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. 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. The argument\u003cbr\u003e 2. The doctrine of necessity\u003cbr\u003e 3. Public amateurs, secret bureaucrats\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bureaux\u003cbr\u003e 5. The sweet despotism of reason\u003cbr\u003e 6. The quantum of sickness\u003cbr\u003e 7. The granary of science\u003cbr\u003e 8. Suicide is a kind of madness\u003cbr\u003e 9. The experimental basis of the philosophy of legislation\u003cbr\u003e 10. Facts without authenticity, without detail, without control, and without value\u003cbr\u003e 11. By what majority?\u003cbr\u003e 12. The law of large numbers\u003cbr\u003e 13. Regimental chests\u003cbr\u003e 14. Society prepares the crimes\u003cbr\u003e 15. The astronomical conception of society\u003cbr\u003e 16. The mineralogical conception of society\u003cbr\u003e 17. The most ancient nobility\u003cbr\u003e 18. Cassirer's thesis\u003cbr\u003e 19. The normal state\u003cbr\u003e 20. As real as cosmic forces\u003cbr\u003e 21. The autonomy of statistical law\u003cbr\u003e 22. A chapter from Prussian statistics\u003cbr\u003e 23. A universe of chance\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005694857496,"sku":"9780521380140","price":75.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521380140i_3faeffd4-d5a8-463b-b43e-a847855b8c92.jpg?v=1691376090","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-taming-of-chance-hardback-9780521380140","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}