Luck as Risk and the Lack of Control Account of Luck.

This essay explains the notion of luck in terms of risk. It starts by distinguishing two senses of risk, the risk that an event has of occurring and the risk at which an agent is with respect to an event. It cashes out the former in modal terms (rather than probabilistic) and the latter in terms of...

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Publicado en:Metaphilosophy Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26
Autor principal: Broncano‐Berrocal, Fernando
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2015
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