The Gambling Animal

‘Praise for Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalised (with James Ladyman):A book can be important, although its main claims seem to the reader to be as controversial at the end of the book as they were at the beginning … So it is with Every Thing Must Go … An enticing work’ - Jeremy Butterfield‘Ross’s broadside against traditional analytic metaphysics embodies the most admirable characteristics of a good slap across the face: it is forceful, frank, and delivered in response to sufficient provocation’ - P. Kyle Stanford, author

Don Ross is the head of the School of Society, Politics and Ethics at University College Cork, Ireland, Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the Program Director for Methodology at the Center for Economic Analysis of Risk at Georgia State University. His research focuses on the foundations of economic theory, and the psychology of addiction, risk, and time preference.

Glenn Harrison is professor of risk management and Director of the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk at Georgia State University. He also consults for bodies including the World Bank, the Swedish and Danish governments, the E.P.A., the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, and governments suing tobacco and drug companies in the U.S. and Canada.