https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Serendipity-Expect-The-Unexpected https://booksandideas.net/Serendipity-Expect-The-Unexpected 2014-07-03T08:00:00Z text/html en Mathilde Poizat-Amar & Nina Rolland Arts Philosophy science research chance experimentation <p>Horace Walpole's “Serendipity” has become a word commonly used in a wide range of disciplinary fields. Two recent books explore contemporary uses of the concept, in relation both to professional research and to creative processes more generally.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Allotment-and-Democracy-in-Ancient https://booksandideas.net/Allotment-and-Democracy-in-Ancient 2010-12-13T07:44:00Z text/html en Paul Demont Carousel History democracy Antiquity chance Ancient Greece <span class="caps">FMSH</span> <p>Contrary to the view generally accepted among historians of antiquity on the authority of Plato and Aristotle, allotment does not strictly go hand in hand with democracy. According to Paul Demont, it was rather the establishment of democracy that gradually democratized a practice that was originally aristocratic and religious.</p> https://booksandideas.net/When-the-lottery-is-fairer-than https://booksandideas.net/When-the-lottery-is-fairer-than 2008-11-26T11:56:54Z text/html en Florent Guénard & Hélène Landemore Carousel Philosophy democracy Video Interviews la suite droite rationality justice chance Text Interviews <p>Jon Elster explains why he has gradually distanced himself from rational choice theories to favour chance and the luck of the draw, less liable to be unjust when deliberation is plainly impossible. Video interview.</p>