Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, "The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future Through Science" (Cornell UP, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Evolution of Prediction: From Ancient Greece to Modern Science
This chapter explores the history of scientific prediction in Europe, starting with the ancient Greek and Roman philosophical treatises. It discusses the differentiation between knowledge that looks into causes and knowledge that looks for meanings. The chapter also examines how prediction became incorporated into modern science and introduces the idea of statistical forecasting in Soviet Russia.
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