game theory, and to identify promising new directions. This important collection testifies to the growing importance of … game theory as a tool to capture the concepts of strategy, interaction, argumentation, communication, cooperation and … competition. Also, it provides evidence for the richness of game theory and for its impressive and growing application. …

Experimental philosophy, as practiced by political philosophers, has tended to use experimental methods to gain …. Political philosophy is often concerned with comparative normative institutional analysis as well as the analysis of social … between political philosophy and behavioral economics on the one hand and experimental economics on the other, we can see …

matter-of-fact philosophy pioneered by the much-maligned philosopher Epicurus. His ideas were suppressed in ancient times as … heretical, but the development of the theory of games and decisions makes it timely for those of us who care about science to … has no equations and very little jargon; nor does it pull any punches, either in explaining how game theory works or in …

-Stock Companies, Teachers, and Preachers -- Chapter 4: Self-Command in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. A Game …Inspired by his lectures on rhetoric and by game theory, this book provides a new interpretation of Adam Smith’s system … researchers interested in the history of ideas, the history of economic thought, game theory, Enlightenment studies, and rhetoric …