The bed of Procrustes
philosophical and practical aphorisms
The bed of Procrustes
philosophical and practical aphorisms
Book - 2010
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.
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| التنسيق: | كتاب |
| اللغة: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
c2010.
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| الطبعة: | 1st ed. |
| الموضوعات: |
MARC
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| 100 | 1 | |a Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, |d 1960- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The bed of Procrustes : |b philosophical and practical aphorisms / |c Nassim Nicholas Taleb. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Random House, |c c2010. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 112 p. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Aphorisms and apothegms. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human behavior |v Quotations, maxims, etc. | |
| 948 | |a LTI 05/24/2013 | ||
| 998 | |a 2010.12.06 | ||
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