Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms

Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms

In this pithy and highly readable book, Brian Skyrms, a recognised authority on game and decision theory, investigates traditional problems of the social contract in terms of evolutionary dynamics. Game theory is skilfully employed to offer new interpretations of a wide variety of social phenomena, including justice, mutual aid, commitment, convention and meaning. The author eschews any grand, unified theory. Rather, he presents the reader with tools drawn from evolutionary game theory for the purpose of analysing and coming to understand the social contract. The book is not technical and requires no special background knowledge. As such, it could be enjoyed by students and professionals in a wide range of disciplines: political science, philosophy, decision theory, economics and biology.

'This book takes philosophical discussion of game theory to a new level of sophistication' Elliot Sober, University of Wisconsin
'… a brilliant and impressive work …'. Christopher Bertram, The Economic Journal

Skyrms, Brian: - Brian Skyrms is Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and of Economics at the University of California, Irvine and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, California. His publications include The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure (Cambridge, 2004), Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Information (2010), From Zeno to Arbitrage: Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction (2012) and Evolution of the Social Contract (Cambridge, 1996), which won the 1999 Lakatos Award in Philosophy of Science.

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ISBN 13	9780521555838
ISBN 10	0521555833
Title	Evolution of the Social Contract
Author	Brian Skyrms
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1996-06-28
Number of pages	162
Prizes	Winner of Lakatos Prize 1999
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