Luck: Its Nature and Significance for Human Knowledge and Agency

1. Front Matter

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2. Lucky Events: The Current Debate and a New Proposal

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3. What Is a Stroke of Luck? Enriching the Strokes Account

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4. Knowledge and Luck I: Gettiered Belief and the Ease of Mistake Approach

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5. Knowledge and Luck II: Three More Approaches to Gettiered Belief

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6. Freedom, Responsibility, and Luck I: The Possibility of Moral Responsibility and Literal Arguments for the Proximal Determination Requirement

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7. Freedom, Responsibility, and Luck II: Stipulative Arguments for the Proximal Determination Requirement and Three Arguments against It

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8. Coda

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9. Back Matter

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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 brings this new theory to bear on issues in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of action.

• LUCK
• VALUE
• CHANCE
• CONTROL
• KNOWLEDGE
• EVIDENCE
• JUSTIFICATION
• ACTION
• FREEDOM
• RESPONSIBILITY
• DETERMINISM
• Determination
• knowledge
• morality
• philosophy
• subject

• University of Tennessee, USA

  E. J. Coffman

E.J. Coffman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA. He works primarily in epistemology and philosophy of action. He has recently published papers in these areas in Philosophical Issues, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, Philosophical Explorations, and Journal of Philosophical Research.

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