The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms /
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-
The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms / Nassim Nicholas Taleb. - London : Penguin Books, 2011. - x, 112 pages ; 21 cm
Procrustes -- Preludes -- Counter narratives -- Matters ontological -- The sacred and the profane -- Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism -- Charming and less charming sucker problems -- Theseus, or, living the Paleo life -- The republic of letters -- The universal and the particular -- Fooled by randomness -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Robustness and fragility -- The ludic fallacy and domain dependence -- Epistemology and subtractive knowledge -- The scandal of prediction -- Being a philosopher and managing to remain one -- Economic life and other very vulgar subjects -- The sage, the weak, and the magnificent -- The implicit and the explicit -- On the varieties of love and nonlove -- The end -- Postface.
9780241954096
2010036866
PN6271 / .T35 2010
818.602
The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms / Nassim Nicholas Taleb. - London : Penguin Books, 2011. - x, 112 pages ; 21 cm
Procrustes -- Preludes -- Counter narratives -- Matters ontological -- The sacred and the profane -- Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism -- Charming and less charming sucker problems -- Theseus, or, living the Paleo life -- The republic of letters -- The universal and the particular -- Fooled by randomness -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Robustness and fragility -- The ludic fallacy and domain dependence -- Epistemology and subtractive knowledge -- The scandal of prediction -- Being a philosopher and managing to remain one -- Economic life and other very vulgar subjects -- The sage, the weak, and the magnificent -- The implicit and the explicit -- On the varieties of love and nonlove -- The end -- Postface.
9780241954096
2010036866
PN6271 / .T35 2010
818.602