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The Taming of Chance
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Ian Hacking
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2009
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Cambridge University Press
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9780511819766
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2009
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Book chapters
pp. 1
The argument
pp. 11
The doctrine of necessity
pp. 16
Public amateurs, secret bureaucrats
pp. 27
Bureaux
pp. 35
The sweet despotism of reason
pp. 47
The quantum of sickness
pp. 55
The granary of science
pp. 64
Suicide is a kind of madness
pp. 73
The experimental basis of the philosophy of legislation
pp. 81
Facts without authenticity, without detail, without control, and without value
pp. 87
By what majority?
pp. 95
The law of large numbers
pp. 105
Regimental chests
pp. 115
Society prepares the crimes
pp. 125
The astronomical conception of society
pp. 133
The mineralogical conception of society
pp. 142
The most ancient nobility
pp. 150
Cassirer's thesis
pp. 160
The normal state
pp. 170
As real as cosmic forces
pp. 180
The autonomy of statistical law
pp. 189
A chapter from Prussian statistics
pp. 200
A universe of chance
pp. 216
Notes
pp. 265
Ideas in Context
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