正題名/作者 : The bed of Procrustes :/ Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
其他題名 : philosophical and practical aphorisms /
作者 : Taleb, Nassim.
出版者 : New York :Random House,c2010.
面頁冊數 : xii, 112 p. ;21 cm.
標題 : Aphorisms and apothegms. -
ISBN : 9781400069972 (hbk.)
ISBN : 1400069971 (hbk.)
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505 0 $aProcrustes -- 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.
520 $aBy the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
650 0$aAphorisms and apothegms.$3248470
650 0$aHuman behavior$xQuotations, maxims, etc.$3304745