Download or read book Le hasard et l anti hasard written by Hubert Saget and published by Librairie Philosophique Vrin. This book was released on 1991 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Random Justice written by Neil Duxbury and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial book explores the potential for the use of lotteries in social, and particularly legal, decision-making contexts. Neil Duxbury considers in detail the history, advantages, and drawbacks of deciding issues of social significance by lot and argues that the value of the lottery as a legal decision-making device has generally been underestimated.
Download or read book Big Business and the State written by Raymond Vernon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five country studies, five industry studies and two more general papers are well integrated to make this one of the best books we have on industrial policy and the different patterns of government-business relations developing in Western Europe.
Download or read book Au dela du hasard et de l anti hasard written by Robert Linssen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antoine Augustin Cournot as a Sociologist written by Robert Leroux and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thinking of Antoine-Augustin Cournot has inspired a growing literature in economy and epistemology, but as of yet, his sociological thought has not been explicitly discussed and contextualized within the discipline. From the 1850s to the end of the 1870s, Cournot contributed significantly to the history of French sociology, particularly in the development of one essential idea: that forms of knowledge are intimately linked to the progress of reason. Philosophy, therefore, becomes interested in the development of the sciences, evolving as they do from the process of rationalizing human societies. Cournot’s comparative-historical sociology, “rediscovered” especially by Gabriel Tarde in the 20th century, seeks to understand how a macro-sociological trend can depend on the aggregation of a host individual decisions and actions, or to discern a certain order out of apparent chaos.
Download or read book Anti Chance written by E. Schoffeniels and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-Chance: A Reply to Monod's Chance and Necessity reflects the most fundamental biological facts about human behavior, representing constants that are difficult to modify by religious, moral or social constraints. This book provides a simplistic view which neglects the profound meaning of physico-chemical determinism and most elementary rules of structuration of biological systems. The topics discussed include the probabilities of chance, thermodynamics and biological order, basis for a theoretical biology, and great inventions. The molecular basis of instinct, speech and consciousness, cybernetics and biology, and the structure of chance are also deliberated in this text. This publication is beneficial to students and researchers interested in the analysis of human affairs.
Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Download or read book La fin du hasard written by Igor Bogdanoff and published by Grasset & Fasquelle. This book was released on 2013 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage se propose de raconter (avec l'incroyable talent pédagogique des deux auteurs) l'étrange histoire du. hasard. Et cette histoire commence en 1920, lors des discussions du fameux "groupe Solvay", avec l'affrontement d'Albert Einstein (pour lequel "Dieu ne joue pas aux dès", ce qui signifie : il n'y a pas de hasard dans l'univers) et les tenants de la mécanique quantique, regroupés autour du physicien Eisenberg qui, à l'inverse, croit que la matière et les molécules sont distribuées au hasard. L'enjeu de cette discussion est de taille : s'il n'y a pas de hasard, cela signifie que la création obéit à un plan, et que partant, il y a un architecte - c'est-à-dire un Dieu. En revanche, si le hasard mène le monde, alors Dieu n'est plus nécessaire. Cette polémique se déploie à travers les universités du monde avec des coups de tonnerre, des découvertes, des percées scientifiques - dont Igor et Grichka Bogdanov racontent les péripéties avec un talent et un sens du suspense tout à fait extraordinaires. Dans un premier temps (jusqu'aux années 1950, Einstein semble être le grand perdant de cette polémique - mais tout change avec les découvertes de la théorie de l'information - dont le savant Boltzmann est la figure de proue : désormais, les théoriciens de l'entropie en reviennent aux positions "anti-hasard", ce qui ouvre la porte à toutes les spéculations philosophiques. On pourrait croire que ce sont là des débats fort complexes - et ils le sont parfois. Mais les "Bogda" s'arrangent pour nous "initier" de telle sorte que l'on comprend tout (soyons honnêtes : presque tout) de leur démonstration.Conclusion : Dieu refuse toujours de "jouer au dés". Ce qui implique que l'univers se soumet à des lois, à des codes, à un codeur auquel on donnera le nom que l'on veut.
Download or read book The Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art written by Denis Lejeune and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many, chance and art are antagonistic terms. But a number of 20th century artists have turned this notion on its head by attempting to create artworks based on randomness. Among those, three in particular articulated a well-argued and thorough theory of the radical use of chance in art: André Breton (writer), John Cage (composer) and François Morellet (visual artist). The implications of such a move away from established aesthetics are far-reaching, as much in conceptual as in practical terms, as this book hopes to make clear. Of paramount importance in this coincidentia oppositorum is the suggested possibility of a correlation between the artistic use of chance and a system of thought itself organised around chance. Indeed placing randomness at the centre of one’s art may have deeper philosophical consequences than just on the aesthetical level.
Download or read book Debating Design written by William A. Dembski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-12 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 2004, William Dembski, Michael Ruse, and other prominent philosophers provide a comprehensive balanced overview of the debate concerning biological origins - a controversial dialectic since Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. Invariably, the source of controversy has been 'design'. Is the appearance of design in organisms (as exhibited in their functional complexity) the result of purely natural forces acting without prevision or teleology? Or, does the appearance of design signify genuine prevision and teleology, and, if so, is that design empirically detectable and thus open to scientific inquiry? Four main positions have emerged in response to these questions: Darwinism, self-organisation, theistic evolution, and intelligent design. The contributors to this volume define their respective positions in an accessible style, inviting readers to draw their own conclusions. Two introductory essays furnish a historical overview of the debate.
Download or read book Aristotle s Concept of Chance written by John Dudley and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book is the first to provide a comprehensive account of Aristotle's concept of chance. Chance is invoked by many to explain order in the universe, the origins of life, even human freedom and happiness. An understanding of Aristotle's concept of chance is indispensable for an appreciation of his views on nature and ethics, views which have had a tremendous influence on the development of Western philosophy. Author John Dudley analyzes Aristotle's account of chance in the Physics, the Metaphysics, in his biological and ethical treatises, and in a number of his other works as well. Important complementary considerations such as Aristotle's criticism of Presocratic philosophers, particularly Empedocles and Democritus, Plato's concept of chance, the chronology of Aristotle's works, and the relevance of Aristotle's work to evolution and quantum theory are also covered in depth. This is an essential book for scholars and students of Western philosophy.
Download or read book An Introduction to the French Economy written by John Sheahan and published by Merrill Publishing Company. This book was released on 1969 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essais m taphysiques et math matiques sur le hasard sur les lois qui le r gissent sur l analyse des ces lois et sur l application dont elles sont susceptibles aux principaux jeux de hasard actuellement en usage par Fran ois Corbaux junior Premi re partie contenant les principes g n raux le d veloppement des lois relatives aux hasards compos s de deux chances gales Tome premier written by Francois Corbaux and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics as Rhetoric written by Anne Isla and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Maris was killed in Paris on January 7, 2015, during the terrorist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. He remains one of the most original intellectuals of contemporary France, but despite being a uniquely original heterodox thinker, his international reputation has been compromised by the fact that his writings are inaccessible to non-French speakers. This book remedies that. By providing an overview of Bernard Maris’ life and intellectual trajectory as well as an English translation of an anthology of his most relevant writings, this volume provides the international audience – for the first time ever – the chance to know and understand the contribution of this major heterodox economist. An outstanding and atypical figure in economic thought and a virulent critic of mainstream dominant economics, he was also an all-round actor and thinker of his time. Through rigorous reasoning, he questioned the notion of well-being, which, he argued, is too often conflated with having more. Enslavement by work, or the endless destructive accumulation of natural wealth, is also inherent to the capitalist system. Probably his most original contribution is his epistemological reflection on the very nature of economics and his appraisal of this discipline as a form of rhetoric. This book will be of great interest to readers in heterodox economics, economic methodology, epistemology, and French literature and culture more broadly.
Download or read book Constraining Chance written by Alison James and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the study of a specific case - the work of the 20th-century French writer Georges Perec (1936-82).
Download or read book The Drake Equation written by Douglas A. Vakoch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scientists and historians explore the equation that guides modern astrobiology's search for life beyond Earth.
Download or read book Figures of Chance I written by Anne Duprat and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work on the evolution of literary and artistic representations of chance and contingency. Alongside its multidisciplinary companion volume (Figures of Chance II), it considers how the projective and predictive capacity of societies is shaped by representations and cultural models of a reality that is understood, to varying degrees, to be contingent, unpredictable, or chaotic. Giving special emphasis to the French context while also developing broad cross-cultural comparisons, this volume examines the dialogue between evolving conceptions and changing representations of chance, from Renaissance figures of Fortune to the data-driven world of the present. Written by recognized specialists of each of the periods studied, it identifies and historicizes the main fictional and factual modes of portraying, narrating, and comprehending chance in the West.
