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100 1 _ade Bruin, Boudewijn.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aExplaining Games
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Epistemic Programme in Game Theory /
_cby Boudewijn de Bruin.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2010.
300 _aXVIII, 178 p.
_bonline resource.
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSynthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ;
_v346
505 0 _aPreliminaries -- Preliminaries -- Epistemic Logic -- Normal Form Games -- Extensive Games -- Epistemology -- Applications of Game Theory -- The Methodology of Game Theory.
520 _aDoes game theory - the mathematical theory of strategic interaction - provide genuine explanations of human behaviour? Can game theory be used in economic consultancy or other normative contexts? Explaining Games: The Epistemic Programme in Game Theory - the first monograph on the philosophy of game theory - is a bold attempt to combine insights from epistemic logic and the philosophy of science to investigate the applicability of game theory in such fields as economics, philosophy and strategic consultancy. De Bruin proves new mathematical theorems about the beliefs, desires and rationality principles of individual human beings, and he explores in detail the logical form of game theory as it is used in explanatory and normative contexts. He argues that game theory reduces to rational choice theory if used as an explanatory device, and that game theory is nonsensical if used as a normative device. A provocative account of the history of game theory reveals that this is not bad news for all of game theory, though. Two central research programmes in game theory tried to find the ultimate characterisation of strategic interaction between rational agents. Yet, while the Nash Equilibrium Refinement Programme has done badly thanks to such research habits as overmathematisation, model-tinkering and introversion, the Epistemic Programme, De Bruin argues, has been rather successful in achieving this aim.
650 0 _aPhilosophy (General).
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650 0 _aSocial sciences
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650 0 _aMathematics.
650 0 _aEconomics, Mathematical.
650 1 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Science.
650 2 4 _aLogic.
650 2 4 _aGame Theory/Mathematical Methods.
650 2 4 _aGame Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of the Social Sciences.
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aSynthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ;
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