Beyond Luck

Author : John E. Langhorne
Publisher : Corridor Media Group Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780615337913
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Luck written by John E. Langhorne and published by Corridor Media Group Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What managers have: challenges and problems. What managers don't have: time. With that in mind, John Langhorne has written an ôun-book,ö one that offers solutions, knowledge and insight in easily managed segments.

Author : Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307594688
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luck and Circumstance written by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed director of such films as Brideshead Revisited shares the story of his youth and career, providing coverage of such topics as his childhood as the son of star Geraldine Fitzgerald, his relationships with Hollywood elite and the allegations that Orson Welles was his real father.

Author : Duncan Pritchard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119030587
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Luck written by Duncan Pritchard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck Offers an in-depth examination of the concept of luck, which has often been overlooked in philosophical study Includes discussions of luck from a range of philosophical perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science Examines the role of luck in core philosophical problems, such as free will Features work from the main philosophers writing on luck today

Author : Janet R. Douglas
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480866024
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Wonderful Stroke of Luck written by Janet R. Douglas and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an occupational therapist suffers a massive stroke while attending a wedding in her native England, she can’t believe it. Janet R. Douglas emerges from a coma weeks later at a Chicago hospital where she once worked. Her left side is totally paralyzed, her eyesight impaired, her memory and identity lost. Trapped in the present, she finds herself talking in German even though she has seldom spoken the language since high school. With no understanding of the severity of her problems, she resists therapy, thinking she doesn’t need it. Despite all odds, she returns to her high-powered job only to find herself cast adrift by a corporate reorganization. With time on her hands, she carries out her own research to find out how damage to one specific part of the brain affects behavior. From the perspective of both therapist and patient, Douglas explains the impact of stroke, how it makes the simplest tasks difficult, and how the visible disabilities it causes are just the tip of the iceberg. Join Douglas on a decade-long quest to recapture her identity so she can once again enjoy family, work, and travel in A Wonderful Stroke of Luck.

Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521286916
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Luck written by Bernard Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-12-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Luck centres on questions of moral philosophy and the theory of rational action. That whole area has of course been strikingly reinvigorated over the last decade, and philosophers have both broadened and deepened their concerns in a way that now makes much earlier moral and political philosophy look sterile and trivial.

Author : David V. Axelsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000517519
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luck Egalitarianism written by David V. Axelsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers a critical discussion of luck egalitarianism – one of the most prominent views in contemporary political philosophy – through an exploration of the theory of one of its leading proponents, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen. When (if ever) can inequalities in how well peoples’ lives go be justified? Luck egalitarianism provides an appealing answer: inequalities are just if, and only if, they are the result of the exercise of individual responsibility. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen lucidly defends and specifies this view in his own book Luck Egalitarianism. The authors in this volume offer a critical discussion of the key features of his view. They discuss disagreements within views which assign an important role to responsibility. They go on to push the limits of luck egalitarianism: what about inequalities between us and the dead? And inequalities between groups? Finally, they criticize some of the central tenets of luck egalitarianism, including its tendency to avoid action-guiding judgements and its focus on distributions rather than interpersonal relations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Author : Daniel Statman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791415399
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Luck written by Daniel Statman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luck plays a part in determining our judgments and in causing us to question our notions of morality. Should a successful murderer be punished more severely than an unsuccessful one? Should a person be praised for his fine moral character which was a consequence of his good luck in being born into a certain kind of family, in particular historical circumstances? These questions and other ideas are discussed in this book by leading philosophers including: Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Martha C. Nussbaum, Don Levi, Judith Andre, Henning Jensen, Nicholas Rescher, Norvin Richards, Steven Sverdlik, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael J. Zimmerman, and Margaret U. Walker. The reader is stimulated to reflect on his or her basic notions of morality, especially those of responsibility, agency, and justification.

Author : Susan L. Hurley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674017702
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice, Luck, and Knowledge written by Susan L. Hurley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility. But this approach, Hurley contends, has ignored the way our understanding of responsibility constrains the roles it can actually play within distributive justice.

Author : Yvonne Denier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400753357
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice, Luck & Responsibility in Health Care written by Yvonne Denier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, an international group of philosophers, economists and theologians focus on the relationship between justice, luck and responsibility in health care. Together, they offer a thorough reflection on questions such as: How should we understand justice in health care? Why are health care interests so important that they deserve special protection? How should we value health? What are its functions and do these make it different from other goods? Furthermore, how much equality should there be? Which inequalities in health and health care are unfair and which are simply unfortunate? Which matters of health care belong to the domain of justice, and which to the domain of charity? And to what extent should we allow personal responsibility to play a role in allocating health care services and resources, or in distributing the costs? With this book, the editors meet a double objective. First, they provide a comprehensive philosophical framework for understanding the concepts of justice, luck and responsibility in contemporary health care; and secondly, they explore whether these concepts have practical force to guide normative discussions in specific contexts of health care such as prevention of infectious diseases or in matters of reproductive technology. Particular and extensive attention is paid to issues regarding end-of-life care.

Author : Ian M. Church
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351258745
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck written by Ian M. Church and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.