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THE PHILOSOPHY O F L U C K T H E P H I L O S O P H Y O F LUCK Edited by D u n c a nL Perei t cJhoahrnd W anhdi t t i n g t o n The Philosophy of Luck METAPHILOSOPHY SERIESINPHILOSOPHY SeriesEditors:ArmenT.MarsoobianandEricCavallero ThePhilosophyofInterpretation,editedbyJosephMargolisandTomRock- more(2000) GlobalJustice,editedbyThomasW.Pogge(2001) Cyberphilosophy:TheIntersectionofComputingandPhilosophy,editedby JamesH.MoorandTerrellWardBynum(2002) Moral and Epistemic Virtues, edited by Michael Brady and Duncan Pritchard(2003) TheRangeofPragmatismandtheLimitsofPhilosophy,editedbyRichard Shusterman(2004) The Philosophical Challenge of September 11, edited by Tom Rockmore, JosephMargolis,andArmenT.Marsoobian(2005) GlobalInstitutionsandResponsibilities:AchievingGlobalJustice,editedby ChristianBarryandThomasW.Pogge(2005) Genocide’s Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair, edited by Claudia Card andArmenT.Marsoobian(2007) Stem Cell Research: The Ethical Issues, edited by Lori Gruen, Laura Gravel,andPeterSinger(2007) CognitiveDisabilityandItsChallengetoMoralPhilosophy,editedbyEva FederKittayandLiciaCarlson(2010) VirtueandVice,MoralandEpistemic,editedbyHeatherBattaly(2010) Global Democracy and Exclusion, edited by Ronald Tinnevelt and Helder DeSchutter(2010) Putting Information First: Luciano Floridi and the Philosophy of Informa- tion,editedbyPatrickAllo(2011) ThePursuitofPhilosophy:SomeCambridgePerspectives,editedbyAlexis Papazoglou(2012) PhilosophicalEngineering:TowardaPhilosophyoftheWeb,editedbyHarry HalpinandAlexandreMonnin(2014) ThePhilosophyofLuck,editedbyDuncanPritchardandLeeJohnWhit- tington(2015) The Philosophy of Luck Edited by Duncan Pritchard and Lee John Whittington Thiseditionfirstpublished2015 Chapters©2014MetaphilosophyLLCandJohnWiley&SonsLtd,exceptfor“LuckasRisk andtheLackofControlAccountofLuck”©2015MetaphilosophyLLCandJohnWiley& SonsLtd. 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Coverimage:BusterKeatoninascenefromSteamboatBillJr.,1928.BusterKeaton Productions/RGA Setin10/11ptTimesbyAptaraInc.,NewDelhi,India 1 2015 CONTENTS NotesonContributors vii IntroductoryNote 1 DUNCANPRITCHARDAND LEEJOHNWHITTINGTON 1 LuckasRiskandtheLackofControlAccountofLuck 3 FERNANDOBRONCANO-BERROCAL 2 StrokesofLuck 27 E.J.COFFMAN 3 LuckAttributionsandCognitiveBias 59 STEVEND.HALESAND JENNIFERADRIENNEJOHNSON 4 FrankfurtinFakeBarnCountry 79 NEILLEVY 5 LuckandFreeWill 93 ALFREDR.MELE 6 YouMakeYourOwnLuck 107 RACHELMCKINNON 7 Subject-InvolvingLuck 127 JOEMILBURN 8 TheModalAccountofLuck 143 DUNCANPRITCHARD vi CONTENTS 9 TheMachinationsofLuck 169 NICHOLASRESCHER 10 Luck,Knowledge,and“Mere”Coincidence 177 WAYNED.RIGGS 11 TheUnbearableUncertaintyParadox 191 SABINEROESER 12 GettingMoralLuckRight 205 LEEJOHNWHITTINGTON Index 219 NOTESONCONTRIBUTORS FernandoBroncano-BerrocalisapostdoctoralfellowattheCentreforLogic and Analytic Philosophy, KU Leuven. He recently completed his Ph.D. at the LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, where he wrote a thesis on how accounts of luck bear on accounts of epistemic luck and in turn on theories of knowledge such as safety-basedaccountsandvirtueepistemology.Hehaspublishedadapted partsofhisthesisinErkenntnisandPhilosophia. E.J.CoffmanisanassociateprofessorofphilosophyattheUniversityof Tennessee. He works in epistemology and philosophy of action, and has recently published papers in Philosophical Issues, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophers’ Imprint, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Philo- sophicalExplorations,andJournalofPhilosophicalResearch.Heisworking onabook(tobepublishedbyPalgraveMacmillan)onthenatureofluck anditsbearingonthenatureandscopeofknowledgeandfree,accountable action. StevenD.HalesisaprofessorofphilosophyatBloomsburgUniversityof Pennsylvania. He writes primarily in epistemology and metaphysics, and his books include This Is Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy (MIT, 2006), Nietzsche’s Perspectivism (co-authored, Illinois University Press, 2000), and A Companion to Rela- tivism(edited,Wiley-Blackwell,2011). Jennifer Adrienne Johnson is an associate professor of psychology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. She earned her degree in exper- imental psychology with a concentration in cognitive neuroscience from McGill University. She has focused her research on better understanding humanattentionalprocessingandhaspublishedherworkinjournalssuch asCerebralCortexandtheJournalofCognitiveNeuroscience. viii NOTESONCONTRIBUTORS Neil Levy is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, based at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne, Aus- tralia.Heworksmainlyonquestionsattheintersectionofthesciencesof the mind and ethics, as well as free will. His most recent books are Hard Luck(Oxford,2011)andConsciousnessandMoralResponsibility(Oxford, 2014). RachelMcKinnonisanassistantprofessorofphilosophyattheCollegeof Charleston.Hermainfieldsofresearchareepistemologyandphilosophyof language.Herprimaryfocusisontherelationshipbetweenknowledgeand action.Specifically,muchofherresearchfocusesonthenormsofassertion. She has published widely on this topic in journals such as Philosophical Studies,AmericanPhilosophicalQuarterly,andPacificPhilosophicalQuar- terly,andsheiscurrentlypreparingabookmanuscript. AlfredR.MeleistheWilliamH.andLucyleT.WerkmeisterProfessorof PhilosophyatFloridaStateUniversityanddirectorofthePhilosophyand ScienceofSelf-Controlproject(2014–2017).Heistheauthoroftenbooks, includingFreeWillandLuck(Oxford,2006),andmorethantwohundred articles. JoeMilburnisabouttocompletehisPh.D.inphilosophyattheUniversity ofPittsburgh.Hespecializesinepistemology. Duncan Pritchard is a professor of philosophy at the University of Edin- burghanddirectoroftheEidynResearchCentre.Hismainfieldofresearch is epistemology, and he has published widely in this area, including the monographs Epistemic Luck (Oxford, 2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge(co-authored,Oxford,2010),andEpistemologicalDisjunctivism (Oxford,2012). NicholasRescherisDistinguishedUniversityProfessorofPhilosophyatthe University of Pittsburgh, where he has served for over fifty years. He has publishedmorethanahundredbooksrangingovervirtuallyeverybranch of philosophy. The recipient of eight honorary doctorates from universi- tiesonthreecontinents,hehasservedaspresidentoftheAmericanPhilo- sophical Association, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, theAmericanMetaphysicalSociety,theAmericanLeibnizSociety,andthe C.S.PeirceSociety. Wayne D. Riggs is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. He works almost exclusively in the area of epistemology, though his philosophical interests range more widely, especially into the philosophyofscience,valuetheory,andethics.
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