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Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis : Challenging Our Infatuation With Numbers /

"Highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology, this book analyses the heuristic value of fiction. It alerts us to how we risk succumbing to the deceptions of fiction in our everyday lives, because fictional repre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mack, Michael, 1969-2020
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Objects and Numbers
  • Our Current Infatuation; 1 What Is It about Numbers?; 2 Playing the Numbers: Ethics and Economics; 3 Certainty and the Predictability of Numbers: The Question of Literary Ethics; 4 A Disenchantment with Numbers: Philosophy and Literature; 5 Medicine and the Limits of Numbers; 6 Towards a Numerical Ambiguity; 7 Conclusion: From Numbers to the Individual
  • A New Ethics of Subjectivity; Index.