Black mischief: language, life, logic, luck [2nd ed] 9780786753956, 0786753951

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART I
True Confessions
Getting Rich
The Dismal Science
Losing Money
The Axis of Desire and Belief
A Prince of the Realm
Hot Air Rising
Taking Stock
Bi-Coastal: East
Whatever It's Worth
The Boys in the Back Room
Physical, Material, Mechanical
Bi-Coastal: West
The Odds
Russian Roulette
A Farewell to Physics
From Bad to Worse
Information
My Sign
Kolmogorov Complexity
Paris
PART II
As Big as Galileo
Status in Science
Dim Sum
The Gnome
Knowing and Known
Harvard
The Scientific Method. Laws of PsychologyDouble Trouble
Darwinian Days
Force Majeure
Making Out
Can We Talk?
Give Baby the Orange
Chomsky Ascendant
Loitering at Infinity
Under the Aspect of Syntax
Sour Grapes
Sunny Days at Stanford
Wordsmith
Sentences from Symbols
Contra Force Majeure
Nous Sommes Si Beaux
Two Great Frauds
PART III
Formal Systems
The Hilbert Program
Brunch
The Connoisseur of Complexity
Fillmore Street
Truth, Theories, Models
Symbol to Symbol
The Range of Light
The Ghost within the Machine
An Attitude Adjustment
The Machine within the Ghost
Blind Ambition
Late Lunches. Sermon for the DayPART IV
Alpine Weather
Newton's Version
On the Arm
The Vagaries of Curvature
Launched
Zusammenhang
A Mozart of Management
Celestial Dynamics
Happy Days at HRA
Newton's Vision
Just Like That
The Right Stuff
Differential Topology
The Triple Concepts
Mighty Morse
Thom's Way Out
Stable Shapes
The Long Goodbye
Owing to Whitney
Classification and Its Discontents
Centro di Physica
PART V
Doctor No
A System of Belief
Scopes Two
Employed Again
Haunting History
Cashing In
Misprints in the Book of Life
Life Itself
An Experiment in Education
The Team. PlenitudeGood as Gould
Ovid in His Exile
George
The Evidence for Evolution
Checking Out
The Spaces of Life
A Little Number on Complexity
The Language of Life
Weak Theories
Language-Like
In the Sixteenth Arrondissement
Arguments Gone Bad
Meaning
Pedagogical Impact
There to Here
The Weizenbaum Experiment
Eigen-values of Natural Selection
Florence.

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