Speculation : : A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI / / Gayle Rogers.
In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical reasoning are supposed to have provided greater certainty in making claims about the future. Yet we constantly spin out scenarios about tomorrow, for ourselves or for entire societies, with flimsy or n...
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Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE MIRROR AND THE WATCHTOWER
- 2 EXPERIMENTING ON THOUGHT
- 3 GAMBLING ON A WORD
- 4 AMERICA THE SPECULATIVE
- 5 SPECULITIS, OR THE TECHNOLOGIES OF PROPHECY
- 6 THE LADY SPECULATOR
- CONCLUSION Speculative Risks, Inhuman Imaginations
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX