The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck

Ian M. Church, Robert J. Hartman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

486 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-73166-3 (ISBN)

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Luck permeates our lives, and this raises a number of pressing questions: What is luck? When we attribute luck to people, circumstances, or events, what are we attributing? Do we have any obligations to mitigate the harms done to people who are less fortunate? And to what extent is deserving praise or blame affected by good or bad luck? Although acquiring a true belief by an uneducated guess involves a kind of luck that precludes knowledge, does all luck undermine knowledge? The academic literature has seen growing, interdisciplinary interest in luck, and this volume brings together and explains the most important areas of this research. It consists of 39 newly commissioned chapters, written by an internationally acclaimed team of philosophers and psychologists, for a readership of students and researchers. Its coverage is divided into six sections:

I: The History of Luck

II: The Nature of Luck

III: Moral Luck

IV: Epistemic Luck

V: The Psychology of Luck

VI: Future Research.

The chapters cover a wide range of topics, from the problem of moral luck, to anti-luck epistemology, to the relationship between luck attributions and cognitive biases, to meta-questions regarding the nature of luck itself, to a range of other theoretical and empirical questions. By bringing this research together, the Handbook serves as both a touchstone for understanding the relevant issues and a first port of call for future research on 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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-367-73166-5 / 0367731665
ISBN-13	978-0-367-73166-3 / 9780367731663
Zustand	Neuware