Artificial Morality: Virtuous Robots for Virtual Games

✍ Scribed by Peter Danielson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Artificial Morality: Virtuous Robots for Virtual Games (1992) came between Axelrod's "The Evolution of Cooperation "The Evolution of Cooperation (1984)" and later "The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration (1997)" (I haven't read "The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition (2006)" yet).
Danielson delves deeper into details of explorations into the "Prisoner's Dilemma" with many variations on a theme. This book is a wonderful companion to the two books above. Short examples are illustrated in Prolog for the more geek minded, but that is not necessary to enjoy and understand the material presented.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
How to avoid reading some of this book......Page 14
RATIONALITY AND MORALITY......Page 18
FUNDAMENTAL JUSTIFICATION AND GAMES......Page 34
NATURE AND ARTIFICE......Page 54
CONDITIONAL CO-OPERATION......Page 76
RECIPROCAL CO-OPERATION......Page 103
A MORAL MONSTER?......Page 126
FLEXIBLE PLAYERS......Page 144
INFORMATION AND ITS COSTS......Page 163
CHICKEN......Page 178
DISCRIMINATION, FAIRNESS AND SANCTIONS......Page 194
CONCLUSION......Page 210
A GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS......Page 218
PROLOG IMPLEMENTATIONS......Page 220
Predicates into functions......Page 221
Reading decision procedures......Page 222
How to copy a principle......Page 223
Notes......Page 225
Bibliography......Page 244
Index......Page 251