The Bed of Procrustes
Subtitle: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
By: by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781400069972
Description: 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, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
Table of contents: title: Procrustes; title: Preludes; title: Counter narratives; title: Matters ontological; title: The sacred and the profane; title: Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism; title: Charming and less charming sucker problems; title: Theseus, or, living the Paleo life; title: The republic of letters; title: The universal and the particular; title: Fooled by randomness; title: Aesthetics; title: Ethics; title: Robustness and fragility; title: The ludic fallacy and domain dependence; title: Epistemology and subtractive knowledge; title: The scandal of prediction; title: Being a philosopher and managing to remain one; title: Economic life and other very vulgar subjects; title: The sage, the weak, and the magnificent; title: The implicit and the explicit; title: On the varieties of love and nonlove; title: The end; title: Postface.