Signals (Häftad)
avBrian Skyrms
ISBN: 9780199582945 - UTGIVEN: 201004Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools -- theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning -- to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and in[...]
Social Dynamics (Pocket)
avBrian Skyrms
ISBN: 9780199652839 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. Interaction[...]
The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure (Häftad)
avBrian Skyrms
ISBN: 9780521533928 - UTGIVEN: 200312Brian Skyrms, author of the successful Evolution of the Social Contract (which won the prestigious Lakatos Award) has written a sequel. The new book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action. The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseauâs A Discourse on Ineq[...]
Evolution of the Social Contract (Pocket)
avBrian Skyrms
ISBN: 9780521555838 - UTGIVEN: 199606In 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, [...]
Choice and Chance (Pocket)
avBrian Skyrms
ISBN: 9780534557379 - UTGIVEN: 1999-11-01This text surveys a number of issues in inductive logic, setting the stage for more advanced discussion.[...]
