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Evolution of the Social Contract

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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Sex and Justice -- The Problem of Justice -- Evolution and Sex Ratios -- Justice: An Evolutionary Fable -- Polymorphic Problems -- Avoiding Polymorphic Traps -- The Evolution of Justice -- 2 Fairness and Commitment -- Ultimatum Bargaining -- Sequential Rationality -- Empirical Justice I -- Evolution of An Anomaly -- The Trembling Hand -- Recombination -- Mutation -- Empirical Justice II -- Framing of Social Norms -- 3 Mutual Aid -- The Logic of Decision -- Differential Reproduction -- Darwin Meets the Logic of Decision -- Inclusive Fitness -- Correlation Mechanisms -- The Common Good -- The Categorical Imperative -- 4 Correlated Convention -- The Curse of Symmetry -- Chicken, Hawk, and Dove -- Broken Symmetry -- Correlation and Convention -- Invasion of the Correlators -- Learning -- Cultural Evolution -- Randomness is in the Eye of the Beholder -- Property -- 5 The Evolution of Meaning -- Signaling Games -- Birds do it -- Evolution in a Signaling Game -- Signals for Altruists -- The Tower of Babel -- Deception -- Evolution of Meaning -- Postscript -- Notes -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Notes to Postscript -- References -- Index.

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Book(electronic)#12014

Evolution of the social contract

Skyrms, Brian

In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Featuring new material on evolution and information transfer, and including recent developments in game theory and evolution literature, his book introduces and applies appropriate concepts of equilibrium and evolutionary dynamics, showing how key issues can be modeled as games and considering the ways in which evolution sometimes supports, and sometimes does not support, rational choice. He discusses topics including how bargaining with neighbors promotes sharing of resources, the diversity of behavior in ultimatum bargaining in small societies, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and an investigation into signaling games and the spontaneous emergence of meaningful communication. His book will be of great interest to readers in philosophy of science, social science, evolutionary biology, game and decision theory, and political theory

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Evolution of the social contract

Skyrms, Brian

"In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining. Featuring new material on evolution and information transfer, and including recent developments in game theory and evolution literature, his book introduces and applies appropriate concepts of equilibrium and evolutionary dynamics, showing how key issues can be modelled as games and considering the ways in which evolution sometimes supports, and sometimes does not support, rational choice. He discusses topics including how bargaining with neighbours promotes sharing of resources, the diversity of behavior in ultimatum bargaining in small societies, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and an investigation into signalling games and the spontaneous emergence of meaningful communication. His book will be of great interest to readers in philosophy of science, social science, evolutionary biology, game and decision theory, and political theory"--

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Book(electronic)#71996

Evolution of the social contract

Skyrms, Brian

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