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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context, Series Number 17)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context, Series Number 17)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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Taming of Chance
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context, Series Number 17)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context, Series Number 17)
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance (Paperback or Softback)
Published by Cambridge University Press 8/31/1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context, Series Number 17)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good paperback copy. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good. Shelfwear is very minor. From a private collection. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Taming of Chance
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Ideas in Context. 1st thus (1990). 264pp. VG copy, ink name and stamp on flyleaf, text clean throughout.
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context, Series Number 17)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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Add to basketCondition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0521388848.
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context, Series Number 17)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
Condition: New.
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context, Series Number 17)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance
Published by New York, N.Y., Cambridge University Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Later printing. 264 pages. This is one of the Ideas in Context series. Pencil underlining and notations. Cover worn. Corners creased. Includes Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Topics covered include The Argument; The Doctrine of Necessity; Public Amateurs, Secret Bureaucrats; Bureaux; The Sweet Despotism of Reason; The Quantum of Sickness; The Granary of Science; Suicide is a Kind of Madness; The Experimental Basis of the philosophy of legislation; Facts without authenticity, without detail, without control, and without value; By what majority?; The law of large numbers; Regimental chests; Society prepares the crimes; The astronomical conception of society; The astronomical conception of society; The mineralogical conception of society; The most ancient nobility; Cassirer's thesis; The Normal State; As Real as Cosmic Forces; The Autonomy of Statistical Law; A Chapter from Prussian Statistics; and A Universe of Chance. 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 "probabilization" of the western world. Ian MacDougall Hacking CC FRSC FBA (born February 18, 1936) is a Canadian philosopher specializing in science. He has won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and been a member of prestigious groups, including the Order of Canada, the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy. The Taming of Chance is a 1990 book about the history of probability by the philosopher Ian Hacking. First published by Cambridge University Press, it is a sequel to Hacking's The Emergence of Probability (1975). Hacking discusses the history of probability. He draws on the work of the philosopher Michel Foucault. The Taming of Chance was first published in the United Kingdom by Cambridge University Press in 1990. It is part of the series Ideas in Context. The Taming of Chance has been described as ground-breaking. The book received positive reviews from the statistician Dennis Lindley in Nature, the philosopher Stephen P. Turner in the American Journal of Sociology, the historian of science Theodore M. Porter in American Scientist and in Poetics Today, and Timothy L. Alborn in Isis. The book received mixed reviews from the philosopher Margaret Schabas in Science and Bruce Kuklick in American Historical Review. Lindley credited Hacking with presenting a careful and entertaining discussion of the development of the idea of chance, successfully showing that the laws of chance developed from "collections of data." He noted that, "Hacking's argument is supported by a vast number of references to statistical work and the interpretations put upon it." However, he criticized Hacking's style for being sometimes "overwhelming in its complexity", and questioned whether Hacking's thesis was original. Turner wrote that the book was useful for both sociologists of science and historians of social science, and that while Hacking's arguments were open to objections, Hacking was "too sophisticated" to be caught by them. Porter wrote in American Scientist that Hacking made "outstanding use" of Foucault's insights. He believed that Hacking's perspective was "especially fitting as an approach to the history of probability and statistics." Although he was not entirely satisfied with Hacking's arguments, he concluded that the book was "eminently worth reading." In Poetics Today, Porter described the book as "exceptionally illuminating on the issue of statistics and control" and credited Hacking with suggesting a "suitably subtle way of understanding social statistics." Alborn wrote that Hacking had a "vibrant writing style" and presented a "wealth of material". However, he also wrote that the book left many questions unanswered. Schabas complimented Hacking for his discussion of "the deb.
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Taming of Chance
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This copy is in good condition. The covers have light rubbing and edgewear. Text is free of markings and secure in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Taming of Chance
Published by Cambridge University Pr., 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: good. 0521388848. 1990, clean copy, light shelfwear, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.
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The Taming of Chance
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
Seller: Walden Books, London, United Kingdom
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. Laminate card cover lightly sunned on spine and at head of rear panel, minute creasing at edges, a suggestion of rubbing; Edges lightly age-toned, pages otherwise clean with no annotation; Binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy copy with slight wear. ; Ideas In Context, Series Number 17; 5.99 X 0.64 X 9.02 inches; 265 pages.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 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.
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
First Edition
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 264 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
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The Taming of Chance 17 Ideas in Context, Series Number 17
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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Taming of Chance
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance 17 Ideas in Context, Series Number 17
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context)
Published by Cambridge University Press 1990-11-01, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context, Series Number 17)
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521388848 ISBN 13: 9780521388849
Language: English
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