ISBN 13 : 978-0-8129-7381-5

Contents : Contents

Prologue

Part 1. Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation.
1. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic
2. Yevgenia's black swan
3. The speculator and the prostitute
4. One thousand and one days or how not to be a sucker
5. Confirmation shmonfirmation !
6. The narrative fallacy
7. Living in the antechamber of hope
8. Giacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence
9. The ludic fallacy or the uncertainty of the nerd.

Part 2. We just can't predict.
10. The scandal of prediction
11. How to look bird poop
12. Epistemocracy, a dream
13. Appelles the painter or what do you if you cannot predict ?

Part 3. Those gray swans of extremistan
14. From mediocristan to extremistan and back
15. The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud
16. The aesthetics of randomness
17. Locke's madmen or bell curves in the wrong places
18. The uncertainty of the phony

Part 4. The end
19. Half and half or how to get even with the black swan

Postcript essay : on robustness and fragility, deeper philiosophical and empirical reflections

I.Learning From Mother Nature, The Oldest And The Wisest
II.Why I Do All This Walking, Or How Systems Become Fragile
III.Margaritas Ante Porcos
IV.Asperger And The Ontological Black Swan
V.(Perhaps) The Most Useful Problem In The History Of Modern Philosophy
VI.The Fourth Quadrant, The Solution To The Most Useful Of Problems
VII.What To Do With The Fourth Quadrant
VIII.The Te Principles For A Black-Swan—Robust-Society
IX.Amor Fati : How To Become Indestructible

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments For The First Edition
Index

Language : English

Print : 2ème

Place of publishing : USA

Location : Nice Library

Material : Paper

Statement : Présent

Owner : Bibliothèque