Just playing
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Just playing
(MIT Press series on economic learning and social evolution, . Game theory and the social contract ; 2)
MIT Press, c1998
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Note
Bibliography: p. 547-577
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - setting the scene: whither away? the art of compromise
- moral philosophy
- non-cooperative game theory
- cooperative game theory
- Nash program
- implementation. Part 1 Nuances of negotiations: realistic bargaining models
- bargaining problems
- bargaining solutions
- characterizing bargaining solutions
- bargaining with commitment
- trustless transactions
- bargaining without commitment
- other approaches to bargaining. Part 2 Evolution in Eden: the good, the right, and the seemly
- utilitarianism
- fictitious postulatum? evolutionary ethics
- evolution and justice
- non-teleological utilitarianism
- morality as a short-run phenomenon. Part 3 Rationalizing reciprocity: back-scratching
- rights in a theory of the seemly
- Folk theorem
- social contracts in big societies
- the role of the emotions
- due process
- renegation
- what about moral values? Part 4 Yearning for utopia: envy
- equity in economics
- equity in psychology
- equity in anthropology
- the game of morals
- worthiness and power
- the market and the long run
- unfinished business
- a perfect commonwealth?
- humean and humane. Appendices: really meaning it! Harsanyi scholarship
- bargaining theory.
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