What’s Wrong with Modal Conceptions of Luck and Risk

Erkenntnis 86 (4):773-787 (2019)
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The modal account of luck has become very popular and influential in the past decade. More recently, some of its proponents have also put forth a modal account of risk and argued that we ought to apply it to problems both in and out of philosophy. This paper tries to show that modal conceptions of luck and risk are mistaken.

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