The psychology and philosophy of luck |
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Authors: | Duncan Pritchard Matthew Smith |
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Institution: | a Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UKb Department of Psychology, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, Liverpool L16 9JD, UK |
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Abstract: | There has been a great deal of interest in the concept of luck in the recent psychological and philosophical literature. In philosophy, this interest has tended to focus not upon luck simpliciter but rather upon the role that luck plays in ethical and epistemological debates concerning (respectively) moral and epistemic luck. In psychology, in contrast, a number of studies have explicitly examined our everyday conceptions of luck and the manner in which these conceptions influence our lives. This article surveys both the recent psychological and philosophical literature on this topic and argues that (to different degrees) the work of both disciplines in this area has been hampered by a failure to be clearer about what luck involves. Accordingly, this article offers a specification of what is core to the notion of luck and highlights how this analysis can aid further research in this area by both psychologists and philosophers. |
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Keywords: | Causal attribution Chance Counterfactual thinking Fortune Illusion of control Luck |
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