Bibliograph

The bed of Procrustes, philosophical and practical aphorisms, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The bed of Procrustes, philosophical and practical aphorisms, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The bed of Procrustes

Oclc number

663822337

Responsibility statement

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sub title

philosophical and practical aphorisms

Summary

By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery

Table Of Contents

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

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