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The bed of Procrustes : philosophical and practical aphorisms /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Aphorisms and apothegms.
Human behavior > Quotations, maxims, etc.
Nonfiction.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.