The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck

Ian M. Church is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hillsdale College. He is the co-author (with Peter Samuelson) of Intellectual Humility: An Introduction to the Philosophy & Science (2017). Robert J. Hartman is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Lund-Gothenburg Responsibility Project at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the author of In Defense of Moral Luck: Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness (2017).

Section I: History of Luck






Nafsika Athanassoulis: Aristotle on Constitutive, Developmental, and Resultant Moral Luck



Sarah Broadie: Aristotle on Luck, Happiness, and Solon’s Dictum



René Brouwer: The Stoics on Luck



Jeffrey Hause: Thomas Aquinas on Moral Luck



Kate Moran: Immanuel Kant on Moral Luck



Craig Smith: Adam Smith on Moral Luck and the Invisible Hand



Piers Norris Turner: John Stuart Mill on Luck and Distributive Justice



Dani Rabinowitz: History of Luck in Epistemology



Andrew Latus: Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams on Moral Luck
Section II: The Nature of Luck




Duncan Pritchard: Modal Accounts of Luck



Wayne Riggs: The Lack of Control Account of Luck



Nicholas Rescher: The Probability Account of Luck



Rik Peels: The Mixed Account of Luck



Nathan Ballantyne & Samuel Kampa: Luck and Significance



Fernando Broncano-Berrocal: Luck as Risk



Rachel Mckinnon: Luck and Norms
Section III: Moral Luck




Daniel Statman: The Definition of ‘Luck’ and the Problem of Moral Luck



Carolina Sartorio: Kinds of Moral Luck



Michael J. Zimmerman: Denying Moral Luck



Robert J. Hartman: Accepting Moral Luck



Laura W. Ekstrom: Luck and Libertarianism



Mirja Pérez de Calleja: Luck and Compatibilism
Section IV: Epistemic Luck




Ian M. Church: The Gettier Problem



Benjamin Jarvis: The Problem of Environmental Luck



Tim Black: Anti-Luck Epistemology



Stephen Hetherington: The Luck/Knowledge Incompatibility Thesis



John Greco: Luck and Skepticism



J. Adam Carter: Epistemic Luck and the Extended Mind
Section V: The Psychology of Luck




Steven D. Hales & Jennifer Adrienne Johnson: Cognitive Biases and Dispositions in Luck Attributions



Karl Halvor Teigen: Luck and Risk



Sabine Roeser: Emotional Responses to Luck, Risk and Uncertainty



Anastasia Ejova: The Illusion of Control



Matthew D. Smith & Piers Worth: Positive Psychology and Luck Experiences
Section VI: Future Research




J. D. Trout: Luck in Science



Joe Milburn & Edouard Machery: The Philosophy of Luck and Experimental Philosophy



Ori J. Herstein: Legal Luck



Carolyn McLeod & Jody Tomchishen: Feminist Approaches to Moral Luck



Guy Axtell: The New Problem of Religious Luck



Jordan Wessling: Theology and Luck