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Klaas Landsman, Ellen van Wolde: The Challenge of Chance (2018, Springer Cham)

This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the …

A Compelling Eclectic Compendium of Essays on Chance

To call this collection multidisciplinary is an understatement, with academics from fields as diverse as theology, statistics, and biology all examining different aspects of chance. I particularly liked the piece from Olivier Hekster on the role of chance in history, as well as the section by Christoph Lüthy and Carla Rita Palmerino analyzing the conceptual and historical roots of chance. While many of the contributions in areas where I have some expertise were more basic than I'd like, this is still an excellent collection on a fundamental concept that gets far too little attention. Highly recommend