The Taming of Chance

Produktbeschreibung

This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; 1. The argument; 2. The doctrine of necessity; 3. Public
amateurs, secret bureaucrats; 4. Bureaux; 5. The sweet despotism of reason; 6.
The quantum of sickness; 7. The granary of science; 8. Suicide is a kind of
madness; 9. The experimental basis of the philosophy of legislation; 10. Facts
without authenticity, without detail, without control, and without value; 11. By
what majority?; 12. The law of large numbers; 13. Regimental chests; 14. Society
prepares the crimes; 15. The astronomical conception of society; 16. The
mineralogical conception of society; 17. The most ancient nobility; 18.
Cassirer's thesis; 19. The normal state; 20. As real as cosmic forces; 21. The
autonomy of statistical law; 22. A chapter from Prussian statistics; 23. A
universe of chance; Notes; Index.