Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality

by Robert C. Koons

Book Overview

The purpose of this book is to develop a framework for analyzing 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 logical paradox (known since antiquity as the Liar paradox) lies at the root of a number of persistent puzzles in game theory, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521100593
• ISBN13: 9780521100595
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"