The Philosophy of Luck 1st Edition by Duncan Pritchard, Lee John Whittington ISBN 1119030579 9781119030577

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ISBN 10: 1119030579 

ISBN 13: 9781119030577

Author: Duncan Pritchard, Lee John Whittington

Table of contents: 

CHAPTER 1: LUCK AS RISK AND THE LACK OF CONTROL ACCOUNT OF LUCK
1. Two Senses of Risk
2. Event-Relative Risk: Modal and Probabilistic Interpretations
3. Event-Relative Risk: Modal or Probabilistic?
4. Agent-Relative Risk as Lack of Control
5. Four Combinations of Risks, Two Ways of Being Lucky (or Fortunate)
6. An Account of the Notion of Control
7. The Lack of Control Account of Luck and Its Counterexamples
8. Conclusions
References
Notes
CHAPTER 2: STROKES OF LUCK
1. Three Leading Theories of Luck
2. Counterexamples to the Leading Theories
3. Lucky Events and Strokes of Luck
4. The Strokes Account of Lucky Events: Further Support and Defense
5. Strokes of Luck: An Analysis and Some Important Implications
6. The Enriched Strokes Account of Lucky Events: Further Support and Defense
7. The Enriched Strokes Account and the Counterexamples to the Leading Theories
Acknowledgments
References
Notes
CHAPTER 3: LUCK ATTRIBUTIONS AND COGNITIVE BIAS
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Notes
CHAPTER 4: FRANKFURT IN FAKE BARN COUNTRY
1.
2
Acknowledgments
References
Notes
CHAPTER 5: LUCK AND FREE WILL
1. Some Background
2. Luck and Agent Causation
Acknowledgments
References
Notes
CHAPTER 6: YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK
1. Luck Properly Under Control
2. Lucky Locutions
3. “Intervening” and “Environmental” Luck
4. Moving Forward
Acknowledgments
References
Notes
CHAPTER 7: SUBJECT-INVOLVING LUCK
1. Introduction
2. Subject-Relative Luck Versus Subject-Involving Luck
3. Epistemic Luck and Moral Luck Are Instances of Subject-Involving Luck
4. Subject-Involving Luck and Lack of Control Accounts of Luck
5. Objections
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Notes
CHAPTER 8: THE MODAL ACCOUNT OF LUCK
1. Anti-Luck Epistemology and the Modal Account of Luck in Outline
2. Luck, Significance, and Subjectivity
3. Modality and Luck
4. Luck and Neighbouring Notions
5. The Modal Account of Luck and Its Rivals
6. Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
References
Notes
CHAPTER 9: THE MACHINATIONS OF LUCK
1. Luck’s Partners: Fate and Fortune
2. Luck Is Statistical in Its Dependence on the Prevailing Context
3. Is Luck Objective or Subjective?
4. Luck Depends on What Follows
5. Can One Control Luck?
6. Can One Measure Luck?
7. Retrospect
8. Concluding Worries
Reference
Notes
CHAPTER 10: LUCK, KNOWLEDGE, AND “MERE” COINCIDENCE
1. Introduction
2. Having No Luck with “Luck”
3. Sunrise Cases
4. Mere Coincidence
5. Conclusion
References
Notes
CHAPTER 11: THE UNBEARABLE UNCERTAINTY PARADOX
1. Introduction
2. A Formal Analysis of the Unbearable Uncertainty Paradox
3. Heuristics, Biases, and Beyond
4. A Taxonomy of the UUP
5. The Phenomenology of the UUP
6. How Irrational Is the UUP?
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Notes
CHAPTER 12: GETTING MORAL LUCK RIGHT
1. Introduction
2. What Is Moral Luck?
3. The Lack of Control and Modal Accounts of Luck
4. Modal Moral Luck
5. Problem 1: The Inclusivity Problem
6. An Action-Orientated Solution
7. Problem 2: The Significance Problem
8. Solution: Relativising the Significance Condition
References

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