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The Philosophy of Luck (Metaphilosophy) - Softcover

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9781119030577: The Philosophy of Luck (Metaphilosophy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1119030579 ISBN 13: 9781119030577
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

Synopsis

This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck

  • Offers an in-depth examination of the concept of luck, which has often been overlooked in philosophical study
  • Includes discussions of luck from a range of philosophical perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science
  • Examines the role of luck in core philosophical problems, such as free will
  • Features work from the main philosophers writing on luck today

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About the Author

Duncan Pritchard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He works mainly in epistemology and he has written several books in this field, including Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (2010), and Epistemic Luck (2005).

Lee John Whittington is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research is focused on the metaphysics of luck and its relation to moral and epistemic luck.

From the Back Cover

This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck. Including work from the leading philosophers writing on luck today, it features discussions of luck from a range of perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science. Although luck has long been thought to play a significant role in many areas of philosophy, luck itself and how it figures in certain core philosophical problems, such as free will, has often been overlooked. This anthology aims to provide a synthesis of existing scholarship on luck that will serve to illuminate, reposition, or even solve existing philosophical problems.

The Philosophy of Luck will be an essential resource for scholars of contemporary philosophy and will shed new light on what luck is and how it works.

From the Inside Flap

This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck. Including work from the leading philosophers writing on luck today, it features discussions of luck from a range of perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science. Although luck has long been thought to play a significant role in many areas of philosophy, luck itself and how it figures in certain core philosophical problems, such as free will, has often been overlooked. This anthology aims to provide a synthesis of existing scholarship on luck that will serve to illuminate, reposition, or even solve existing philosophical problems.

The Philosophy of Luck will be an essential resource for scholars of contemporary philosophy and will shed new light on what luck is and how it works.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1119030579
ISBN 13 
9781119030577
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240
Editor
Pritchard Duncan, Whittington Lee John