Game Theory, Experience, Rationality: Foundations of Social Sciences, Economics and Ethics. In Honor of John C. Harsanyi

✍ Scribed by Werner Leinfellner (auth.), Werner Leinfellner, Eckehart Köhler (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 452
• Series: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook [1997] 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

When von Neumann's and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior appeared in 1944, one thought that a complete theory of strategic social behavior had appeared out of nowhere. However, game theory has, to this very day, remained a fast-growing assemblage of models which have gradually been united in a new social theory - a theory that is far from being completed even after recent advances in game theory, as evidenced by the work of the three Nobel Prize winners, John F. Nash, John C. Harsanyi, and Reinhard Selten. Two of them, Harsanyi and Selten, have contributed important articles to the present volume. This book leaves no doubt that the game-theoretical models are on the right track to becoming a respectable new theory, just like the great theories of the twentieth century originated from formerly separate models which merged in the course of decades. For social scientists, the age of great discover­ ies is not over. The recent advances of today's game theory surpass by far the results of traditional game theory. For example, modem game theory has a new empirical and social foundation, namely, societal experiences; this has changed its methods, its "rationality. " Morgenstern (I worked together with him for four years) dreamed of an encompassing theory of social behavior. With the inclusion of the concept of evolution in mathematical form, this dream will become true. Perhaps the new foundation will even lead to a new name, "conflict theory" instead of "game theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Towards Bounded Rationality within Rational Expectations — Some Comments from an Economic Point of View....Pages 141-152
Macroeconomics and Behavioral Finance: A Tale of Two Disciplines....Pages 153-159
Bayesian Subjunctive Conditionals for Games and Decisions....Pages 161-172
Prediction, Bayesian Deliberation and Correlated Equilibrium....Pages 173-185
Consequentialism and Bayesian Rationality in Normal Form Games....Pages 187-196
Game Theory, Sociodynamics, and Cultural Evolution....Pages 197-210
Microscopic Foundation of Stochastic Game Dynamical Equations....Pages 211-224
Uniform Barriers and Evolutionarily Stable Sets....Pages 225-243
Equilibrium Selection Via Travelling Waves....Pages 245-259
Game Theory, Experience, Rationality....Pages 9-34
Counterproductive Rationality....Pages 35-48
Rationally Coping with Lapses from Rationality....Pages 49-53
Do Rational People Make Mistakes....Pages 55-66
Rationality and Knavery....Pages 67-79
Structural Rationality in Game Theory....Pages 81-93
Attractions to and Repulsions from Chance....Pages 95-107
Agreeing to Disagree: Harsanyi and Aumann....Pages 109-115
Rethinking Rational Cooperation....Pages 117-129
Automata and Inner States for Repeated Games....Pages 131-139
Rational vs. Adaptive Egoism in Support Networks: How Different Micro Foundations Shape Different Macro Hypotheses....Pages 261-275
Evolutionary Ethics....Pages 277-283
A Preference-Based Theory of Well-Being and a Rule-Utilitarian Theory of Morality....Pages 285-300
Variability, Uncertainty, and the Emergence of Firms and Markets....Pages 301-314
A Game Theory of Logic — A Logic of Game Theory....Pages 315-323
Learning with Hazy Beliefs....Pages 325-335
A Game-Theoretic Model of the War in Chechnya....Pages 337-347
Information and Uncertainty: Power, Profits and Morality....Pages 349-357
The Spirit of the Vienna Circle Devoted to Questions of Lebens- and Weltauffassung ....Pages 359-367
„Sicher ist Sicher“....Pages 369-378
Scientific Emigration....Pages 379-386
Reflections on the Austrian Knowledge Bases....Pages 387-395
Editorial Information....Pages 397-402
Kurt Gödel , Collected Works, volume 3: Unpublished Essays and Lectures , edited by Solomon Feferman et al. Oxford University Press, 1995....Pages 403-405
John W. Dawson, Jr . Logical Dilemmas. The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel . Wellesley, Mass.: A.K. Peters 1997....Pages 406-408
Bruno de Finetti , Filosofia della probabilità , ed. by Alberto Mura, Milano: Il Saggiatore, 1995....Pages 408-411
Friedrich Stadler , Studien zum Wiener Kreis. Ursprung, Entwicklung und Wirkung des Logischen Empirismus im Kontext , Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp 1997....Pages 411-414
Paolo Parrini : Conoscenza e Realtà. Saggio di filosofia positiva , Roma & Bari: Laterza, 1995. An English translation appears under the title Knowledge and Reality. An Essay in Positive Philosophy within the Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science at Kluwer, Dordrecht....Pages 415-420
Michael Heidelberger , Die innere Seite der Natur. Gustav Theodor Fechners Wissenschaftlich-philosophische Weltauffassung , Frankfurt/Main: Klostermann, 1993....Pages 420-423
Martin Carrier : The Completeness of Scientific Theories (The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, Vol. 53) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993....Pages 424-429
Jan Faye , Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy , Dordrecht: Kluwer 1991....Pages 429-432
Christian Thiel , Philosophie und Mathematik , Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1995....Pages 432-435
Jesús Padilla Gálvez (ed.) , El Círculo de Viena, Reconsiderado (special issue of Arbor, Madrid), December 1996....Pages 435-437
Kurt Blaukopf , Pioniere empiristischer Musikforschung: Österreich und Böhmen als Wiege der modernen Kunstsoziologie (Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung und Kunst, vol.1), Wein: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1995....Pages 437-439
Kurt Blaukopf (ed.) , Philosophie, Literatur und Musik im Orchester der Wissenschaften: Wissenschaftliche Weltanschauung und Kunst , (Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung und Kunst, vol.2), Wien, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1996....Pages 439-442
Hans Sluga/David G. Stern (eds.) , The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996....Pages 442-448
Back Matter....Pages 449-461

✦ Subjects

Operation Research/Decision Theory; Ethics; Economic Theory; Philosophy of Science; Econometrics