Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck

<p>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 <i>all </i>luck undermine knowledge? The academic literature has seen<i> </i>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:</p><p></p><p>I: The History of Luck</p><p></p><p>II: The Nature of Luck</p><p></p><p>III: Moral Luck</p><p></p><p>IV: Epistemic Luck</p><p></p><p>V: The Psychology of Luck</p><p></p><p>VI: Future Research.</p><p></p><p>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 <i>Handbook </i>serves as both a touchstone for understanding the relevant issues and a first port of call for future research on luck.</p> <p></p><p>Section I: History of Luck</p><p></p><ol> <br><br><p></p> <li>Nafsika Athanassoulis: Aristotle on Constitutive, Developmental, and Resultant Moral Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Sarah Broadie: Aristotle on Luck, Happiness, and Solon’s Dictum</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>René Brouwer: The Stoics on Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Jeffrey Hause: Thomas Aquinas on Moral Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Kate Moran: Immanuel Kant on Moral Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Craig Smith: Adam Smith on Moral Luck and the Invisible Hand</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Piers Norris Turner: John Stuart Mill on Luck and Distributive Justice</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Dani Rabinowitz: History of Luck in Epistemology</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Andrew Latus: Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams on Moral Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p>Section II: The Nature of Luck</p> <br><br><p></p> <li>Duncan Pritchard: Modal Accounts of Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Wayne Riggs: The Lack of Control Account of Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Nicholas Rescher: The Probability Account of Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Rik Peels: The Mixed Account of Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Nathan Ballantyne & Samuel Kampa: Luck and Significance</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Fernando Broncano-Berrocal: Luck as Risk</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Rachel Mckinnon: Luck and Norms</li> <br><br> <br><br><p>Section III: Moral Luck</p> <br><br><p></p> <li>Daniel Statman: The Definition of ‘Luck’ and the Problem of Moral Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Carolina Sartorio: Kinds of Moral Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Michael J. Zimmerman: Denying Moral Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Robert J. Hartman: Accepting Moral Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Laura W. Ekstrom: Luck and Libertarianism</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Mirja Pérez de Calleja: Luck and Compatibilism</li> <br><br> <br><br><p>Section IV: Epistemic Luck</p> <br><br><p></p> <li>Ian M. Church: The Gettier Problem</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Benjamin Jarvis: The Problem of Environmental Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Tim Black: Anti-Luck Epistemology</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Stephen Hetherington: The Luck/Knowledge Incompatibility Thesis</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>John Greco: Luck and Skepticism</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>J. Adam Carter: Epistemic Luck and the Extended Mind</li> <br><br> <br><br><p>Section V: The Psychology of Luck</p> <br><br><p></p> <li>Steven D. Hales & Jennifer Adrienne Johnson: Cognitive Biases and Dispositions in Luck Attributions</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Karl Halvor Teigen: Luck and Risk</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Sabine Roeser: Emotional Responses to Luck, Risk and Uncertainty</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Anastasia Ejova: The Illusion of Control</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Matthew D. Smith & Piers Worth: Positive Psychology and Luck Experiences</li> <br><br><p>Section VI: Future Research</p> <br><br><p></p> <li>J. D. Trout: Luck in Science</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Joe Milburn & Edouard Machery: The Philosophy of Luck and Experimental Philosophy</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Ori J. Herstein: Legal Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Carolyn McLeod & Jody Tomchishen: Feminist Approaches to Moral Luck</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> </ol>