Fights Games And Debates

Author : Anatol Rapoport
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472087419
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fights, Games, and Debates written by Anatol Rapoport and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientifically grounded method by which we can understand human conflict in all its forms

Author : Robert J. Aumann
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262011549
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Papers written by Robert J. Aumann and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Aumann's career in game theory has spanned over research - from his doctoral dissertation in 1956 to papers as recent as January 1995. Threaded through all of Aumann's work (symbolized in his thesis on knots) is the study of relationships between different ideas, between different phenomena, and between ideas and phenomena. When you look closely at one scientific idea, writes Aumann, you find it hitched to all others. It is these hitches that I have tried to study.

Author : Morton D. Davis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486296722
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Theory written by Morton D. Davis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating, newly revised edition offers an overview of game theory, plus lucid coverage of two-person zero-sum game with equilibrium points; general, two-person zero-sum game; utility theory; and other topics.

Author : Barry Hoffmaster
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549751
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Reasoning Ethics written by Barry Hoffmaster and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples. In Re-Reasoning Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker enhance and empower ethics by adopting a non-formal paradigm of rational deliberation as intelligent problem-solving and a complementary non-formal paradigm of ethical deliberation as problem-solving design to promote human flourishing. The non-formal conception of reason produces broader and richer ethical understandings of human situations, not the simple, constrained depictions provided by moral theories and their logical applications in medical ethics and bioethics. Instead, it delivers and vindicates the moral judgment that complex, contextual, and dynamic situations require. Hoffmaster and Hooker demonstrate how this more expansive rationality operates with examples, first in science and then in ethics. Non-formal reason brings rationality not just to the empirical world of science but also to the empirical realities of human lives. Among the many real cases they present is that of how women at risk of having children with genetic conditions decide whether to try to become pregnant. These women do not apply the formal principle of maximizing expected utility (as advised by genetic counselors) and instead imagine scenarios of what their lives could be like with an affected child and assess whether they could accept the worst of these scenarios. Hoffmaster and Hooker explain how moral compromise and a liberated, extended, and enriched reflective equilibrium expand and augment rational ethical deliberation and how that deliberation can rationally design ethical practices, institutions, and policies.

Author : Anatol Rapoport
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000679918
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Violence written by Anatol Rapoport and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fundamental analysis, Rapoport asks: Why do we have wars? Doesn't humanity always seem on the verge of self-annihilation? Is there something in human genetic structure that makes people want to kill each other? Perhaps this impulse is a matter of good versus evil, or just plain human nature. Rapoport moves beyond cliches by claiming that the sources of modern violence reside in the imbalance between a lag in the system of values inherited from the past and the structure of science and technology that awaits no revision of values to move ahead. As a result, Rapoport argues that the study of war and peace should be considered a science, just like biology or, for that matter, political science. The same rules of empirical engagement and experimentation should apply. Before we can have a theory of peace, we need a methodology of conflict. Using the writings of thinkers who have made significant contributions to the predominant ideas and ideals of our society, Rapoport weaves together the strands of independent thought and research into a single, thought-provoking work. After investigating the whys of violence, using ideological, psychological, strategic, and systemic perspective, Rapoport moves to an in-depth analysis of possible varieties of conflict resolution. He explores such mechanisms as mediation, education, and applying the results of scientific research. He documents the impact of ideologies countervailing dominant ones that place obstacles in the way of peacemaking. Rapoport argues that conciliation and game theories can be utilized to replace the concept of winner take all or total victory. The Origins of Violence is a needed contribution to our understanding of warfare, and provides a forward-looking perspective that can be of wide use to each of the policy sciences, starting with military strategy and ending with international development.

Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022609720X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World the Game Theorists Made written by Paul Erickson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades game theory—the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals—has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altruism and fairness in human beings. With game theory’s ubiquity, however, has come a great deal of misunderstanding. Critics of the contemporary social sciences view it as part of an unwelcome trend toward the marginalization of historicist and interpretive styles of inquiry, and many accuse its proponents of presenting a thin and empirically dubious view of human choice. The World the Game Theorists Made seeks to explain the ascendency of game theory, focusing on the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern’s seminal Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944 and the theory’s revival in economics in the 1980s. Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, Paul Erickson shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.

Author : Clark C. Abt
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819161482
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serious Games written by Clark C. Abt and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the ways in which games can be used to instruct and inform as well as provide pleasure. He uses innovative approaches to problem solving through individualized game techniques.

Author : Daniel H. Nexon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742539594
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harry Potter and International Relations written by Daniel H. Nexon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a range of historical and sociological sources, this work shows how aspects of Harry's world contain aspects of our own. It also includes chapters on the political economy of the franchise, and on the problems of studying popular culture.

Author : Anatol Rapoport
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472061655
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoner's Dilemma written by Anatol Rapoport and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of many experiments in which the psychological game Prisoner's Dilemma was played

Author : Glenn P. Hastedt, Professor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153810492X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to International Politics written by Glenn P. Hastedt, Professor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a first edition core text for freshman/sophomore-level courses on International Relations—the second largest course market in political science. Introduction to international politics courses typically have multiple goals. On the one hand, instructors seek to introduce students to the discipline through readings and discussions of foundational theoretical perspectives and ongoing debates. On the other hand, instructors seek to help students become informed participants in policy debates about foreign policy and international politics issues by highlighting pressing contemporary issues. Effectively addressing both concerns requires more than simply including both topics in the course syllabus or in a textbook. It requires making systematic linkages between theory and policy. This is a long standing challenge in international politics, one raised many years ago by Alexander George in Bridging the Gap in which he called for greater communication between academic scholars and practitioners. This text seeks to link theory and policy in an organized and efficient fashion that does not ignore or slight the conceptual discussion of international relations or simply chase newspaper headlines. Chapters are organized around “Global Challenges and Policy Responses.” The challenges are presented as concrete policy problems relevant to the theme of the chapter. The discussion of responses emphasize concrete actions being taken or proposed by international organizations, the foreign policies of key states, international agreements, and actions taken by NGOs. Theoretical insights are used to help students understand challenges, think about solutions, and learn from the past.