Luck: Its Nature and Significance for Human Knowledge and Agency

As thinkers in the market for knowledge and agents aspiring to morally responsible action, we are inevitably subject to luck. This book presents a comprehensive new theory of luck in light of a critical appraisal of the literature's leading accounts, then

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Luck: Its Nature and Significance for Human Knowledge and Agency

10.1057/9781137326102 - Luck: Its Nature and Significance for Human Knowledge and Agency, E.J. Coffman

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10.1057/9781137326102 - Luck: Its Nature and Significance for Human Knowledge and Agency, E.J. Coffman

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E.J. Coffman Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee, USA

10.1057/9781137326102 - Luck: Its Nature and Significance for Human Knowledge and Agency, E.J. Coffman

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Luck: Its Nature and Significance for Human Knowledge and Agency

© E.J. Coffman 2015

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