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Game Theory, Experience, Rationality - Foundations of Social Sciences, Economics and Ethics in honor of John C. Harsanyi (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Game Theory, Experience, Rationality - Foundations of Social Sciences, Economics and Ethics in honor of John C. Harsanyi (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 5
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This volume collects outstanding contributions to the theory of
games, the theory of game-theoretical rationality, and their
applications. 27 articles present the new situation and the recent
advances in game theory after the award of the Nobel Prize in
economics and especially in game theory to John F. Nash, John C.
Harsanyi, and Reinhard Selten. Two of them, Harsanyi and Selten,
have contributed leading articles to this volume. In utility and
game theory, the question of which rationality governs their
methods and the behavior of the agents as well has emerged as one
of the most exciting new conceptual foundations of all social
sciences. The main aim of this book is to find an answer to this
problem. Do we have to give up our belief in the traditional form
of deductive and linear rationality in the social sciences in favor
of probabilistic and stochastic methods? Which kind of rationality
do we, and should we, use when we attempt to practically solve
societal problems and conflicts? Quite a few articles in this book
address these questions. The consequences of a new, multi-faceted
rationality, which is going to shake the traditional foundation of
game theory, decision theory, and utility theory, and, finally, the
social sciences in their entirety, are discussed in depth in seven
chapters and a preface: Rationality and the Foundations of the
Social Sciences, ' Cooperation and Rationality, ' Rationality and
Economics, ' Bayesian Theory and Rationality, ' Evolution and
Evolutionary Game Theory, ' Ethics and Game Theory, ' and
Applications of Game Theory'. The contributors include economists,
utility and decision theorists, psychologists, sociologists,
physicists, philosophers of sciencesand probability theorists. They
attempt to make their contributions accessible to a wide audience.
The book will interest researchers, teachers and advanced students
in the above-mentioned disciplines; it can be used for a
one-semester course on the graduate level. The volume also includes
a review section focusing on recent publications on Logical
Empiricism and its influence. An autobiographical report on the
Vienna Circle by Arne Naess follows the main part of the Yearbook.
An overview of the activities of the Institute Vienna Circle
1997/98 concludes the volume.
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