Discourses on Social Software

Edited by Jan Van Eijck, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Rineke Verbrugge, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

• Table of Contents - 6 Preface - 8 List of Authors - 14 Chapter 1: Introductory Conversation - 16 Chapter 2: Replies to Angry, Prag and Star - 30 Chapter 3: What is Social Software? - 38 Chapter 4: A Guest Lecture on Social Software - 50 Chapter 5: Social Software and the Social Sciences - 58 Chapter 6: On Social Choice Theory - 72 Chapter 7: Ends and Means, Values and Virtues - 88 Chapter 8: Common Knowledge and Common Belief - 100 Chapter 9: Game Theory, Logic and Rational Choice - 124 Chapter 10: What is Protocol Analysis? - 136 Chapter 11: Dynamic Epistemic Logic for Protocol Analysis - 148 Chapter 12: Battle of the Logics - 164 Chapter 13: Eating from the Tree of Ignorance - 184 Chapter 14: On Collective Rational Action - 200 Chapter 15: Social Software and the Ills of Society - 220 Bibliography - 228 Index - 246