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<p>Notes on Contributors vii</p> <p>Introductory Note 1<br /><i>DUNCAN PRITCHARD AND LEE JOHN WHITTINGTON</i></p> <p>1 Luck as Risk and the Lack of Control Account of Luck 3<br /><i>FERNANDO BRONCANO-BERROCAL</i></p> <p>2 Strokes of Luck 27<br /><i>E. J. COFFMAN</i></p> <p>3 Luck Attributions and Cognitive Bias 59<br /><i>STEVEN D. HALES AND JENNIFER ADRIENNE JOHNSON</i></p> <p>4 Frankfurt in Fake Barn Country 79<br /><i>NEIL LEVY</i></p> <p>5 Luck and Free Will 93<br /><i>ALFRED R. MELE</i></p> <p>6 You Make Your Own Luck 107<br /><i>RACHEL MCKINNON</i></p> <p>7 Subject-Involving Luck 127<br /><i>JOE MILBURN</i></p> <p>8 The Modal Account of Luck 143<br /><i>DUNCAN PRITCHARD</i></p> <p>9 The Machinations of Luck 169<br /><i>NICHOLAS RESCHER</i></p> <p>10 Luck, Knowledge, and “Mere” Coincidence 177<br /><i>WAYNE D. RIGGS</i></p> <p>11 The Unbearable Uncertainty Paradox 191<br /><i>SABINE ROESER</i></p> <p>12 Getting Moral Luck Right 205<br /><i>LEE JOHN WHITTINGTON</i></p> <p>Index 219</p>

<b>Duncan Pritchard</b> is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He works mainly in epistemology and he has written several books in this field, including <i>Epistemological Disjunctivism</i> (2012), <i>The Nature and Value of Knowledge</i> (2010), and <i>Epistemic Luck</i> (2005).<br /><br /><b>Lee John Whittington</b> is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His research is focused on the metaphysics of luck and its relation to moral and epistemic luck.

This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luck. Including work from the leading philosophers writing on luck today, it features discussions of luck from a range of perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive science. Although luck has long been thought to play a significant role in many areas of philosophy, luck itself and how it figures in certain core philosophical problems, such as free will, has often been overlooked. This anthology aims to provide a synthesis of existing scholarship on luck that will serve to illuminate, reposition, or even solve existing philosophical problems.<br /><br /><i>The Philosophy of Luck</i> will be an essential resource for scholars of contemporary philosophy and will shed new light on what luck is and how it works.

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