Gabriel García Márquez / Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin

Gabriel García Márquez / Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin

Does game theory - the mathematical theory of strategic interaction - provide genuine explanations of human behaviour? Can game theory be used in economic consultancy or other normative contexts? Explaining Games: The Epistemic Programme in Game Theory - the first monograph on the philosophy of game theory - is a bold attempt to combine insights from epistemic logic and the philosophy of science to investigate the applicability of game theory in such fields as economics, philosophy and strategic consultancy. De Bruin proves new mathematical theorems about the beliefs, desires and rationality principles of individual human beings, and he explores in detail the logical form of game theory as it is used in explanatory and normative contexts. He argues that game theory reduces to rational choice theory if used as an explanatory device, and that game theory is nonsensical if used as a normative device. A provocative account of the history of game theory reveals that this is not bad news for all of game theory, though. Two central research programmes in game theory tried to find the ultimate characterisation of strategic interaction between rational agents. Yet, while the Nash Equilibrium Refinement Programme has done badly thanks to such research habits as overmathematisation, model-tinkering and introversion, the Epistemic Programme, De Bruin argues, has been rather successful in achieving this aim.

Gerald Martin is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Professor in Caribbean Studies at London Metropolitan University. For twenty-five years he was the only English-speaking member of the Archives Association of Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature in Paris, and he is a recent president of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature in the United States. Among his publications are Journeys Through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fictionin the Twentieth Century, a translation and critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturia's Men of Maize, and several contributions to the Cambridge History of Latin America. He lives in England.

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ISBN 13	9780307472281
ISBN 10	0307472280
Title	Gabriel García Márquez / Gabriel García Márquez: A Life
Author	Gerald Martin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Espanol
Year published	2009-09-22
Number of pages	784
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