The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a New York Times best-seller book on philosophy/sociology written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a Lebanese American epistemologist. It was first published in 2007 and was republished as expanded second edition in 2010. Covering subjects relating to knowledge, aesthetics, and ways of life, the book offers an extended discussion on the black swan theory: the extreme impact of certain kinds of rare and unpredictable events (outliers) and humans' tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events retrospectively.
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