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This volume collects together contributions to the theory of games, the theory of game-theoretical rationality, and their applications. Twenty-seven articles present current 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. Harsanyi and Selten, have themselves contributed leading articles to this volume. In utility and game theory, the question of which rationality governs their methods and the behaviour of the agents as well has emerged as one of the 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 favour 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 may 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 sciences and probability theorists. They attempt to make their contributions accessible to a wide audience. The book should be of interest to 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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Author:   W. Leinfellner ,  Eckehart Köhler
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1998 ed.
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.860kg
ISBN:  

9780792349433

ISBN 10:   0792349431
Pages:   461
Publication Date:   28 February 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Articles.- Game Theory, Experience, Rationality.- Counterproductive Rationality.- Rationally Coping With Lapses From Rationality.- Do Rational People Make Mistakes?.- Rationality and Knavery.- Structural Rationality in Game Theory.- Attractions to and Repulsions From Chance.- Agreeing to Disagree: Harsanyi and Aumann.- Rethinking Rational Cooperation.- Automata and Inner States for Repeated Games.- Towards Bounded Rationality within Rational Expectations — Some Comments from an Economic Point of View.- Macroeconomics and Behavioral Finance A Tale of Two Disciplines.- Bayesian Subjunctive Conditionals for Games and Decisions.- Prediction, Bayesian Deliberation and Correlated Equilibrium.- Consequentialism and Bayesian Rationality in Normal Form Games.- Game Theory, Sociodynamics, and Cultural Evolution.- Microscopic Foundation of Stochastic Game Dynamical Equations.- Uniform Barriers and Evolutionarily Stable Sets.- Equilibrium Selection via Travelling Waves.- Rational vs. Adaptive Egoism in Support Networks: How Different Micro Foundations Shape Different Macro Hypotheses.- Evolutionary Ethics.- A Preference-Based Theory of Well-Being and a Rule-Utilitarian Theory of Morality.- Variability, Uncertainty, and the Emergence of Firms and Markets.- A Game Theory of Logic — A Logic of Game Theory.- Learning with Hazy Beliefs.- A Game-Theoretic Model of the War in Chechnya.- Information and Uncertainty: Power, Profits and Morality.- Report — Documentation.- The Spirit of the Vienna Circle Devoted to Questions of Lebens- and Weltauffassung.- “Sicher ist sicher”.- Review Essay.- Scientific Emigration.- Reflections on the Austrian Knowledge Bases.- Reviews.- Hans Hahn, Collected Works, Volume 2 and 3, edited by Leopold Schmetterer and Karl Sigmund.- Kurt Gödel,Collected Works, vol.3.- John W. Dawson, Jr., Logical Dilemmas. The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel.- Bruno de Finetti, Filosofia della probabilità.- Friedrich Stadler, Studien zum Wiener Kreis.- Paolo Parrini, Conoscenza e Realtà. Saggio di filosofia positiva.- Michael Heidelberger, Die innere Seite der Natur. Gustav Theodor Fechners Wissenschaftlich philosophische Weltauffassung.- Martin Carrier, The Completeness of Scientific Theories.- Jan Faye, Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy Jan Faye, Henry J. Folse (eds.), Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy.- Christian Thiel, Philosophie und Mathematik.- Jesus Padilla Gálvez (ed.), El Cìrculo de Viena, Reconsiderado.- Kurt Blaukopf, Pioniere empiristischer Musikforschung.- Kurt Blaukopf (Ed.), Philosophie, Literatur und Musik im Orchester der Wissenschaften.- Hans Sluga/David G. Stern (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein.- Activities of the Institute Vienna Circle.- Survey 1997.- Preview 1998.- Index of Names.

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... the book is recommended to all who want to get first-hand information on rationality and what game theory can and cannot contribute.' OR News, 8 (2000)

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