Speculation

  • Speculation: A History
    By Stuart Banner

    “We are deathly afraid of Hoover,” the New York broker Charles Chambers told Carter Glass. “The big men in the street do not know just what piece of economic quackery he is going to propose next. It is plain that he is a desperate man ...

  • Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI
    By Gayle Rogers

    1 (February 2011): 157–87; Sheri J. Caplan, Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013); and more generally, Joseph Fichtelberg, Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American ...

  • Speculation
    By Ed Pavlic, Ivelisse Rodriguez

    How can the literary imagination bring us closer to a better world? The world is always changing. But there are also inflection points in history when the world feels changed. Art has the prophetic power to imagine where we are going.

  • Speculation: Its Sound Principles and Rules for Its Practice
    By Thomas Temple Hoyne

    kind, results in exchanges that, when directed by the intellect with one, certain purpose, are defined as speculation. This may seem, for a moment, to be hair-splitting, but it is nothing of the sort. Later on I shall - show that ...

  • Speculation
    By Ed Pavlic, Ivelisse Rodriguez

    How can the literary imagination bring us closer to a better world? The world is always changing. But there are also inflection points in history when the world feels changed. Art has the prophetic power to imagine where we are going.

  • Speculation: Within and About Science
    By Peter Achinstein

    In Speculation, Peter Achinstein develops the basic idea that speculating involves introducing assumptions, under certain "theorizing" conditions, without knowing that there is evidence for those assumptions.