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Explaining Games

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 346)

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9906-9

ISBN: 978-1-4020-9905-2

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Jul 12, 2010

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Preliminaries

de Bruin, Boudewijn

Pages: 1 –25

[Human actionsaction!explanation of can be made sense of in various ways. Combining the dichotomy of understandingunderstanding and explanationexplanation on the one hand, and that of individualismindividualism and holismholism on the other, we can explain actions as expressing meaningmeaning, as...
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Normal Form Games

de Bruin, Boudewijn

Pages: 29 –76

[Epistemic characterisation theorems uncover the epistemic assumptions that underlie game-theoretic solution concepts. Their antecedents contain statements involving players’ beliefs, preferences and rationality principles; their consequents describe actions. This, at least, is the ideal that the...
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Extensive Games

de Bruin, Boudewijn

Pages: 77 –94

[Game theorists may disagree about the suitability of one or another normal form solution concept—there are many—but a brief inspection of the literature will show that they rarely disagree about the correct epistemic characterisation of each solution concept. For extensive games, while several...
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Applications of Game Theory

de Bruin, Boudewijn

Pages: 97 –123

[The aim of this book is to contribute to the philosophy of the theory of games by offering internal as well as external investigations of game theory. The internal investigations were reported in the first three chapters, especially in the discussions in Chapters 2 and 3, and in places made use...
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The Methodology of Game Theory

de Bruin, Boudewijn

Pages: 125 –149

[This book reports both internal and external investigations into game theory. Internally, game theory’s tacit modelling assumptions were investigated carefully representing and interpreting epistemic characterisation results. Externally, game theory’s connections to economic consultancy or...

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