The prisoner's dilemma /

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Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	viii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Classic Philosophical Arguments Classic philosophical arguments.
Subject:	Game theory. Prisoner's dilemma game. Cooperativeness -- Mathematical models. Cooperativeness -- Mathematical models. Game theory. Prisoner's dilemma game.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11693295

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Other authors / contributors:	Peterson, Martin, 1975-
ISBN:	9781107044357 1107044359 9781107621473 110762147X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [282]-296) and index.
Summary:	The Prisoner's Dilemma is one of the most fiercely debated thought experiments in philosophy and the social sciences, presenting the simple insight that when two or more agents interact, the actions that most benefit each individual do not benefit the group. The fact that when you do what is best for you, and I do what is best for me, we end up in a situation that is worse for both of us makes the Prisoner's Dilemma relevant to a broad range of everyday phenomena. This volume of new essays from leading philosophers, game theorists, and economists examines the ramifications of the Prisoner's Dilemma, the directions in which it continues to lead us, and its links to a variety of topics in philosophy, political science, social science, economics, and evolutionary biology. The volume will be a vital and accessible resource for upper-level students as well as academic researchers.0.

Table of Contents:

Why all the fuss? The many aspects of the Prisoner's Dilemma / Ken Binmore
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Prisoner's Dilemma / David Gauthier
Taking the Prisoner's Dilemma seriously : what can we learn from a trivial game? / Daniel M. Hausman
Prisoner's Dilemma doesn't explain much / Robert Northcott and Anna Alexandrova
The Prisoner's Dilemma and the coevolution of descriptive and predictive dispositions / Jeffrey A. Barrett
I cannot cheat on you after we talk / Cristina Bicchieri and Alessandro Sontuoso
Prisoner's Dilemma cannot be a Newcomb problem / José Luis Bermúdez
Counterfactuals and the Prisoner's Dilemma / Giacomo Bonanno
The tragedy of the commons as a voting game / Luc Bovens
The role of numbers in Prisoner's Dilemmas and public good situations / Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Brooks
The inner struggle : why you should cooperate with people you will never meet again / Martin Peterson
Prisoner's Dilemmas, intergenerational asymmetry, and climate change ethics / Douglas MacLean
Prisoner's Dilemma experiments / Charles Holt, Cathleen Johnson, and David Schmidtz
The lesson of the Prisoner's Dilemma / Paul Weirich.

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