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Game Theory and the Social Contract: Just Playing
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Game Theory and the Social Contract: Just Playing Hardcover - 1998

by Ken Binmore


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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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  • Title Game Theory and the Social Contract: Just Playing
  • Author Ken Binmore
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 615
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press, USA
  • Date July 17, 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780262024440 / 0262024446
  • Weight 2.47 lbs (1.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.44 x 1.76 in (23.57 x 16.36 x 4.47 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Political science - Philosophy, Game theory
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93029610
  • Dewey Decimal Code 519.3
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