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The Challenge of Chance: Experiments and Speculations
Author: Alister Hardy, Robert Harvie and Arthur Koestler
Hard cover with dust jacket, book in excellent condition, some tearing at corner of dust jacket..
The Challenge of Chance: Experiments and Speculations is a collaborative nonfiction work that explores the nature of chance, coincidence, and the possibility that some seemingly random events may have deeper patterns or explanations. It brings together the perspectives of marine biologist Alister Hardy, writer Arthur Koestler, and researcher Robert Harvie, blending scientific discussion with philosophical speculation.
The book surveys both experimental research and anecdotal evidence relating to probability, coincidence, and anomalous experiences. It discusses psychological interpretations of coincidence, statistical approaches to randomness, and controversial parapsychological experiments that were of interest to Koestler in particular. Rather than arguing for a single conclusion, it presents a range of ideas about whether chance is purely mechanical or whether human perception and underlying patterns might give it additional meaning.
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