Endorsement Preface 1 It Ain't Necessarily So: on Uncertainty and Epistemic Games 1 Who Caused the Storm? 2 Resolving Uncertainty by Casting Lots 3 Uncertainty, Madonna, and Justice 4 Uncertainty Without Mathematics 5 The Devil and the Dice 6 Uncertainty, Truth, and God 7 How Primitive Is the Sailors' Solution? 8 Anthropomorphism and Uncertainty 9 Probability and Epistemic Leaps 10 Foundations, Abstractions, and Leaps 11 Bring Out the Binomial Calculator! 12 Uncertainty and the Danger of Innocent Blood 13 The Psychology Professor and the Game of Chance 14 Discussion: It Ain't Necessarily So2 Fiction, Where the Exception is the Rule 1 The Science of the Particular 2 Can We Bridge the Gap between the General and the Particular? 3 Between Love and Pornography 4 "We Live, As We Dream - Alone" 5 We Have an Inevitable Blind Spot 6 Through the Loophole 7 The Order of Numbers Versus the Order of Meaning 8 There Is No Alibi in Existence 9 Walking on Thin Ice 10 Discussion: from Probability Theory to the Science of the Particular3 The (Human) Devil Plays Dice 1 Men's Best Friend Is Also the Devil's Best Friend 2 Uncertainty and Possibility 3 Water to a Dying Man 4 "What's the Most You Ever Saw Lost on a Coin Toss?" 5 Dreadful Figures and the Incredible 6 Faust and the Lordly Freedom of Chance 7 There Is No Alibi Even for the Devil 8 God, Uncertainty, and the Exercise of Freedom 9 Discussion: Playing Chess with Death4 "Good Odds in a Universe of Random Chance" 1 Randomness and the Dystopia of Justice 2 The Bed of Sodom and the Individual 3 Correction through Chance 4 The Random Assassin 5 Fighting Fire with Fire 6 Heisenberg's Random Particle and the Synthetic Assassin 7 Uncertainty and Identity 8 Rebelling against the Machine 9 Discussion: Utopia and the Abuse of Uncertainty 5 Boredom, Uncertainty, and Clichés in The Dice Man 1 Randomness and Decadent Freedom 2 Casanova and the Science of Love 3 A Puppet on the Strings of Dice 4 Sodom and Freedom 5 Attacking the Self 6 Except for the Fear of Heaven 7 Discussion: Like a Rolling Stone6 Don't Mess with Mr. In-Between 1 It's Not Safe Out There 2 Through the Hall of Mirrors 3 Clues in a Loophole 4 Who Needs the Detective? 5 Am I Right, or Am I Right? 6 God and the Turd 7 Discussion: "into Each Life a Little Rain Must Fall"7 Cats Know Everything 1 Uncertainty and Taboo 2 Reality and the Workings of the Heart 3 "You Have to Be There to Get It" 4 The Devil Does Not Play Dice 5 Discussion: We Know Everything8 God's Hidden Face 1 When the Characters Have No Names 2 The Penguin, and the Horror of the Uncanny 3 When God's Face is Hidden 4 The Penguin and Chaos 5 Stories of Courage and Justice 6 Discussion: the Courage to Face Uncertainty9 Fiction, Experiential Comprehension, and Uncertainty 1 On the Experience of Uncertainty 2 On Experiential Comprehension 3 Rebbi and the Calf Author's Index Subject Index.