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Luck: Its Nature and Significance for Human Knowledge and Agency (Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy) - Hardcover

Book 5 of 17: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy

Coffman, E.J.

 
9781137326096: Luck: Its Nature and Significance for Human Knowledge and Agency (Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy)

Synopsis

As thinkers in the market for knowledge and agents aspiring to morally responsible action, we are inevitably subject to luck. This book presents a comprehensive new theory of luck in light of a critical appraisal of the literature's leading accounts, then brings this new theory to bear on issues in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of action.

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About the Author

E.J. Coffman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA. He works primarily in epistemology and philosophy of action. He has recently published papers in these areas in Philosophical Issues, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Philosophical Explorations, and Journal of Philosophical Research.

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