name philosophers than are or have been interested in chance,

>>9167079
Don't you mean mathematicians? Any attempt to properly investigate randomness is a mathematical effort, and anyone who pretends otherwise is wrong.

TALEB

>>9167100
you might be right, but i'm a humanities fag, so i need philosophers, i need good texts on the subject.

John Cage comes to mind, though he's not properly a "philosopher".

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>>9167104
This is a good answer.

>>9167110
Bataille, maybe?

>>9167079
Chaos mostly, but chance as well.

Nietzsche, Deleuze, Meillassoux

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Here, read this but don't take my word for it.

>>9167110
Cournot. French mathematician-philosopher-statistician of the 19th century.

>>9167079
aristotle's nic. ethics has multiple discussions on how luck plays a role in the good life

>>9167100
>Any attempt to properly investigate randomness is a mathematical effort

As a mathematician I couldn't disagree more.

Calculating the balance of probabilities is a mathematical effort, but as to what exactly is the nature of randomness is entirely philosophical.

The philosophical implications of quantum mechanics is a start, but even then all you're really doing is fluffing around the edges, as in the macroscopic world statistical physics is deterministic.

I'm not sure you know what you're talking about. I'm a PhD student mathematical physics for what it's worth and even professors dance around the subject as it's annoyingly difficult.

>>9167110
>i don't want to go out of my comfort zone to learn things