The Logic of Strategy

by Cristina Bicchieri (Editor), Richard Jeffrey (Editor), Brian Skyrms (Editor)

Overview

Edited by three leading figures in the field, this exciting volume presents cutting-edge work in decision theory by a distinguished international roster of contributors. These mostly unpublished papers address a host of crucial areas in the contemporary philosophical study of rationality and knowledge. Topics include causal versus evidential decision theory, game theory, backwards induction, bounded rationality, counterfactual reasoning in games and in general, analyses of the famous common knowledge assumptions in game theory, and evaluations of the normal versus extensive form formulations of complex decision problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195117158
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/02/1999
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Carnegie Mellon University

Princeton University

University of California, Irvine

Table of Contents

What is the Logic Strategy?, Cristina Bichieri, Richard Jeffrey, Brian SkyrmsList of ContributorsKnowledge, Belief and Counterfactual Reasoning in Games, Robert SteinakerConsequentialism, Non-Archimedean Probabilities and Lexicographic Expected Utility, Peter J. HammondSolutions Based on Ratifiability and Sure Thing Reasoning, William HarperUndercutting the Ramsey Test for Conditionals, Andre Fuhrmann and Isaac LeviAumann's "No Agreement" Theorem Generalized, Matthais Hild, Richard Jeffrey and Mathais RisseRational Failures of the KK-Principle, Timothy WilliamsonHow Much Common Belief is Necessary for a Convention?, Hyun Song Shin and Timothy WilliamsonSophisticated Bounded Agents Play the Repeated Dilemma, Michael Bacharach, Hyun Song Shin, and Mark WilliamsCan Free Choice Be Known?, Itzhak GilboaSymmetry Arguments for Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma, Cristina Bicchieri and Mitchell S. Green