The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms
(2016)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
818.602/TALEB,N
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, 2016
EDITION
Random House trade paperback edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 156 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780812982404, 0812982401
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Revised and updated'--Cover
"With fifty percent more material than the hardcover"--Page 4 of cover
CONTENTS
Preludes --
Counter narratives --
Matters ontological --
Sacred and the profane --
Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism --
Charming and less charming sucker problems --
Theseus, or, Living the Paleo life --
Republic of letters --
Universal and the particular --
Fooled by randomness --
Aesthetics --
Ethics --
Robustness and antifragility --
Ludic fallacy and domain dependence --
Epistemology and subtractive knowledge --
Scandal of prediction --
Being a philosopher and managing to remain one --
Economic life and other very vulgar subjects --
Sage, the weak, and the magnificent --
Implicit and the explicit --
On the varieties of love and nonlove --
End