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How would Plato have responded if his student Aristotle had ever challenged his idea that our senses perceive nothing more than the shadows cast upon a wall by a true world of perfect ideals? What would Charles Darwin have said to Karl Marx about his claim that dialectical materialism is a scientific theory of evolution? How would Jean-Paul Sartre have reacted to Simone de Beauvoir's claim that the Marquis de Sade was a philosopher worthy of serious attention? This light-hearted book proposes answers to such questions by imagining dialogues between thirty-three pairs of philosophical sages who were alive at the same time. Sometime famous sages get a much rougher handling than usual, as when Adam Smith beards Immanuel Kant in his Konigsberg den. Sometimes neglected or maligned sages get a chance to say what they really believed, as when Epicurus explains that he wasn't epicurean. Sometimes the dialogues are about the origins of modern concepts, as when Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat discuss their invention of probability, or when John Nash and John von Neumann discuss the creation of game theory. Even in these scientific cases, the intention is that the protagonists come across as fallible human beings like the rest of us, rather than the intellectual paragons of philosophical textbooks. .

Philosophy --- Quantitative methods (economics) --- filosofie --- econometrie

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Ken Binmore's previous game theory textbook, Fun and Games (D.C. Heath, 1991), carved out a significant niche in the advanced undergraduate market; it was intellectually serious and more up-to-date than its competitors, but also accessibly written. Its central thesis was that game theory allows us to understand many kinds of interactions between people, a point that Binmore amply demonstrated through a rich range of examples and applications. This replacement for the now out-of-date 1991 textbook retains the entertaining examples, but changes the organization to match how game theory courses are actually taught, making Playing for Real a more versatile text that almost all possible course designs will find easier to use, with less jumping about than before. In addition, the problem sections, already used as a reference by many teachers, have become even more clever and varied, without becoming too technical. Playing for Real will sell into advanced undergraduate courses in game theory, primarily those in economics, but also courses in the social sciences, and serve as a reference for economists.

Microeconomics --- Operational research. Game theory --- Game theory --- Théorie des jeux --- 519.83 --- 518.5 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 305.6 --- Theory of games --- Operationeel onderzoek. Speltheorie --- Risicotheorie, speltheorie. Risicokapitaal. Beslissingsmodellen. --- Game theory. --- 519.83 Theory of games --- Théorie des jeux --- Games, Theory of --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics --- Risicotheorie, speltheorie. Risicokapitaal. Beslissingsmodellen

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Game theory --- Social contract --- Political science --- Philosophy --- 519.83 --- Theory of games --- Game theory. --- Social contract. --- Philosophy. --- 519.83 Theory of games --- Political science - Philosophy

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This book lays out foundations for a ""science of morals."" Binmore uses game theory as a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. He reinterprets classical social contract ideas within a game-theory framework and generates new insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy. In contrast to the previous writing in moral philosophy that relied on vague notion such as ""societal well-being"" and ""moral duty,"" Binmore begins with individuals; rational decision-makers with the ability to empathize with one another. Any social arrangement that prescribes them to act against

Justice --- Fairness --- Social ethics --- Natural law --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Justice. --- Fairness. --- Social ethics.

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