Game Theory & the Social Contract V 2 – Just Playing: 002 (Economic Learning and Social Evolution) - Hardcover

Binmore, Ken B

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9780262024440: Game Theory & the Social Contract V 2 – Just Playing: 002 (Economic Learning and Social Evolution)

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ISBN 10: 0262024446 ISBN 13: 9780262024440

Publisher: MIT Press, 1998

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In Volume 1 of Game Theory and the Social Contract, Ken Binmore restated the problems of moral and political philosophy in the language of game theory. In Volume 2, Just Playing, he unveils his own controversial theory, which abandons the metaphysics of Immanuel Kant for the naturalistic approach to morality of David Hume. According to this viewpoint, a fairness norm is a convention that evolved to coordinate behavior on an equilibrium of a society's Game of Life. This approach allows Binmore to mount an evolutionary defense of Rawls's original position that escapes the utilitarian conclusions that follow when orthodox reasoning is applied with the traditional assumptions. Using ideas borrowed from the theory of bargaining and repeated games, Binmore is led instead to a form of egalitarianism that vindicates the intuitions that led Rawls to write his Theory of Justice.Written for an interdisciplinary audience, Just Playing offers a panoramic tour through a range of new and disturbing insights that game theory brings to anthropology, biology, economics, philosophy, and psychology. It is essential reading for anyone who thinks it likely that ethics evolved along with the human species.

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-- Brian Skyrms, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

" Ken Binmore's "Game Theory and the Social Contract" is the most important work in social philosophy since John Rawls' "Theory of Justice," It is highly original, insightful, and will be a focal point for social theory." -- Brian Skyrms, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

& quot; Ken Binmore's Game Theory and the Social Contract is the most important work in social philosophy since John Rawls' Theory of Justice . It is highly original, insightful, and will be a focal point for social theory.& quot; -- Brian Skyrms, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

"Ken Binmore's

"Ken Binmore's "Game Theory and the Social Contract" is the most important work in social philosophy since John Rawls' "Theory of Justice". It is highly original, insightful, and will be a focal point for social theory."--Brian Skyrms, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine

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In this second volume the author unveils his own controversial theory, which abandons the metaphysics of Immanuel Kant for the naturalistic approach to mortality of David Hume. According to this viewpoint, a fairness norm is a convention that evolved to co-ordinate behaviour on an equalibrium of a society's Game of Life. This approach allows the author to mount an evolutionary defence of Rawls' original position that escapes the utilitarian conclusions that follow when orthodox reasoning is applied with the traditional assumptions. Using ideas borrowed from the theory of bargaining and repeat games, the author is led instead to a form of egalitarianism that vindicates the intuitions that led Rawls to write his "Theory of Justice". Written for an interdisciplinary audience, the book aims to offer a panoramic tour through a range of insights that game theory brings to anthropology, biology, economics, philosophy and psychology.

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