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37 produkter
Evolution of the Social Contract
Av Brian Skyrms
Häftad, 2014
390 kr
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In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Featuring new material on evolution and information transfer, …
Creating Modern Probability
Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective
Av Jan von Plato, Brian Skyrms
Inbunden, 1994
1449 kr
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This is the only book to chart the history and development of modern probability theory. It shows how in the first thirty years of this century probability theory became a mathematical science. The author also traces the development of probabilistic concepts and theories in statistical and quantum …
Social Dynamics
Av Brian Skyrms
E-bok, 2014
505 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. …
Social Dynamics
Av Brian Skyrms
E-bok, 2014
505 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. …
Signals
Evolution, Learning, and Information
Av Brian Skyrms
E-bok, 2010
343 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools — theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning — to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and …
Signals
Evolution, Learning, and Information
Av Brian Skyrms
E-bok, 2010
343 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools — theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning — to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and …
Parerga and Paralipomena: From Zeno to Arbitrage
Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction
Av Brian Skyrms
E-bok, 2012
391 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays on the nature of quantity, probability, coherence, and induction. The first part explores the nature of quantity and includes essays on tractarian nominalism, combinatorial possibility, and coherence. Part Two proceeds to examine coherent updating …
Pursuit of Happiness
Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility
E-bok, 2020
257 kr
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Utilitarianism began as a movement for social reform that changed the world, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. There is a tendency to enter into debates for and against the ethical doctrine of Utilitarianism without a clear understanding of its basic concepts. The …
Pursuit of Happiness
Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility
E-bok, 2020
257 kr
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Utilitarianism began as a movement for social reform that changed the world, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. There is a tendency to enter into debates for and against the ethical doctrine of Utilitarianism without a clear understanding of its basic concepts. The …
The Logic of Strategy
Av Cristina Bicchieri, Richard Jeffrey m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1985 kr
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Edited by three leading figures in the field, this exciting volume presents cutting-edge work in decision theory by a distinguished international roster of contributors. These mostly unpublished papers address a host of crucial areas in the contemporary philosophical study of rationality and …
Logic of Strategy
Av Brian Skyrms, Richard Jeffrey m. fl.
E-bok, 1999
862 kr
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Edited by three leading figures in the field, this exciting volume presents cutting-edge work in decision theory by a distinguished international roster of contributors. These mostly unpublished papers address a host of crucial areas in the contemporary philosophical study of rationality and …
The Pursuit of Happiness
Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility
Inbunden, 2020
563 kr
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Utilitarianism began as a movement for social reform that changed the world, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. There is a tendency to enter into debates for and against the ethical doctrine of Utilitarianism without a clear understanding of its basic concepts. The …
The Pursuit of Happiness
Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility
Häftad, 2023
292 kr
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Utilitarianism began as a movement for social reform that changed the world, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. There is a tendency to enter into debates for and against the ethical doctrine of Utilitarianism without a clear understanding of its basic concepts. The …
Signals
Evolution, Learning, and Information
Av Brian Skyrms
Inbunden, 2010
1205 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools -- theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning -- to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and …
Signals
Evolution, Learning, and Information
Av Brian Skyrms
Häftad, 2010
504 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools -- theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning -- to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and …
From Zeno to Arbitrage
Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction
Av Brian Skyrms
Inbunden, 2012
1390 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays on the nature of quantity, probability, coherence, and induction. The first part explores the nature of quantity and includes essays on tractarian nominalism, combinatorial possibility, and coherence. Part Two proceeds to examine coherent updating …
From Zeno to Arbitrage
Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction
Av Brian Skyrms
Häftad, 2012
618 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays on the nature of quantity, probability, coherence, and induction. The first part explores the nature of quantity and includes essays on tractarian nominalism, combinatorial possibility, and coherence. Part Two proceeds to examine coherent updating …
Social Dynamics
Av Brian Skyrms
Inbunden, 2014
2234 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. …
Social Dynamics
Av Brian Skyrms
Häftad, 2014
612 kr
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Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. …
Probability and Conditionals
Belief Revision and Rational Decision
Häftad, 2007
699 kr
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This collection of essays is on the relation between probabilities, especially conditional probabilities, and conditionals. It provides negative results which sharply limit the ways conditionals can be related to conditional probabilities. There are also positive ideas and results which will open …
The Dynamics of Norms
Av Cristina Bicchieri, Richard Jeffrey m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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In the social sciences norms are sometimes taken to play a key explanatory role. Yet norms differ from group to group, from society to society, and from species to species. How are norms formed and how do they change? This 'state-of-the-art' collection of essays presents some of the best …
Probabilistic Causality
Av Ellery Eells, Brian Skyrms m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
2067 kr
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In this important book, Ellery Eells explores and refines philosophical conceptions of probabilistic causality. In a probabilistic theory of causation, causes increase the probability of their effects rather than necessitate their effects in the ways traditional deterministic theories have …
Probability and the Art of Judgment
Av Richard Jeffrey, Brian Skyrms m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
525 kr
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Richard Jeffrey is beyond dispute one of the most distinguished and influential philosophers working in the field of decision theory and the theory of knowledge. His work is distinctive in showing the interplay of epistemological concerns with probability and utility theory. Not only has he made …
Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality
Av Robert C. Koons, Brian Skyrms m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
1237 kr
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This book develops a framework for analysing strategic rationality, a notion central to contemporary game theory, which is the formal study of the interaction of rational agents and which has proved extremely fruitful in economics, political theory and business management. The author argues that a …
Betting on Theories
Av Patrick Maher, Brian Skyrms m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1807 kr
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This book is a major contribution to decision theory, focusing on the question of when it is rational to accept scientific theories. The author examines both Bayesian decision theory and confirmation theory, refining and elaborating the views of Ramsey and Savage. He argues that the most solid …
Foundations of Probability with Applications
Selected Papers 1974-1995
Av Patrick Suppes, Mario Zanotti m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1449 kr
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This is an important collection of essays dealing with the foundations of probability that will be of value to philosophers of science, mathematicians, statisticians, psychologists and educationalists. The collection falls into three parts. Part I comprises five essays on the axiomatic foundations …
Probability and Conditionals
Belief Revision and Rational Decision
Inbunden, 1994
1710 kr
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This collection of essays is on the relation between probabilities, especially conditional probabilities, and conditionals. It provides negative results which sharply limit the ways conditionals can be related to conditional probabilities. There are also positive ideas and results which will open …
The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure
Av Brian Skyrms
Häftad, 2003
373 kr
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Brian Skyrms, author of the successful Evolution of the Social Contract (which won the prestigious Lakatos Award) has written a sequel. The book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action. The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseau's A Discourse on Inequality. …
Foundations of Probability with Applications
Selected Papers 1974-1995
Av Patrick Suppes, Mario Zanotti m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
748 kr
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This is an important collection of essays dealing with the foundations of probability that will be of value to philosophers of science, mathematicians, statisticians, psychologists and educationalists. The collection falls into three parts. Part I comprises five essays on the axiomatic foundations …
Creating Modern Probability
Its Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy in Historical Perspective
Av Jan von Plato, Brian Skyrms
Häftad, 1998
699 kr
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This is the only book to chart the history and development of modern probability theory. It shows how in the first thirty years of this century probability theory became a mathematical science. The author also traces the development of probabilistic concepts and theories in statistical and quantum …
