Philosophy and literature in times of crisis : : challenging our infatuation with numbers / / Michael Mack.
"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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
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- Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Objects and number: Our Current Infatuation Chapter 1. What is it about Numbers? Chapter 2. Playing the Numbers: Ethics and Economics.Chapter 3. Certainty and the Predictability of Numbers: the question of Literary Ethics.Chapter 4. A Disenchantment with Numbers: Philosophy and Literature.Chapter 5. Medicine and the Limits of Numbers. Chapter 6. Towards a Numerical Ambiguity.Conclusion: From Numbers to the Individual: A New Ethics of Subjectivity. Bibliography Index.