Game Theory and the Social Contract: Just Playing

by Ken Binmore

In Volume 1 of Game Theory and the Social Contract, Ken Binmore restated the problems of moral and political philosophy in the language of game theory. In Volume 2, Just Playing, he unveils his own controversial theory, which abandons the metaphysics of Immanuel Kant for the naturalistic approach to morality of David Hume. According to this viewpoint, a fairness norm is a convention that evolved to coordinate behavior on an equilibrium of a society's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262024446
• ISBN13: 9780262024440
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 615 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher