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Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation : Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1985Copyright date: ©1985Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (377 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774857154
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paradoxes of Rationality and CooperationLOC classification:
  • BC185.P37 1985
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. Background for the Uninitiated -- II. MORALITY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF RATIONAL COOPERATION -- 2. Prisoners, Paradox, and Rationality -- 3. Second Thoughts on Self-interest and Morality -- 4. Maximization Constrained: The Rationality of Cooperation -- 5. Prisoner's Dilemma and Resolute Choice -- III. EVIDENTIAL VERSUS CAUSAL DECISION THEORY -- 6. Newcomb's Problem and Two Principles of Choice -- 7. Counterfactuals and Two Kinds of Expected Utility -- 8. Counterfactuals and Newcomb's Problem -- 9. Causality, Decision, and Newcomb's Paradox -- 10. Where the Tickle Defense Goes Wrong -- 11. Reply to Jackson and Pargetter -- 12. Newcomb's Problem: A Stalemate -- 13. Common Causes, Smoking, and Lung Cancer -- IV. IS THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA A NEWCOMB PROBLEM? -- 14. Prisoners' Dilemma Is a Newcomb Problem -- 15. Is the Symmetry Argument Valid? -- 16. Not Every Prisoner's Dilemma Is a Newcomb Problem -- V. COOPERATION IN REPEATED AND MANY-PERSON PRISONER'S DILEMMAS -- 17. The Insoluble Problem of the Social Contract -- 18. Utility Maximizers in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemmas -- 19. The Emergence of Cooperation among Egoists -- 20. Individual Sanctions, Collective Benefits -- Biographical Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited.
Summary: This anthology, the first to bring together the most important philosophical essays on the paradoxes, analyses the concepts underlying the Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem and evaluates the proposed solutions.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. Background for the Uninitiated -- II. MORALITY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF RATIONAL COOPERATION -- 2. Prisoners, Paradox, and Rationality -- 3. Second Thoughts on Self-interest and Morality -- 4. Maximization Constrained: The Rationality of Cooperation -- 5. Prisoner's Dilemma and Resolute Choice -- III. EVIDENTIAL VERSUS CAUSAL DECISION THEORY -- 6. Newcomb's Problem and Two Principles of Choice -- 7. Counterfactuals and Two Kinds of Expected Utility -- 8. Counterfactuals and Newcomb's Problem -- 9. Causality, Decision, and Newcomb's Paradox -- 10. Where the Tickle Defense Goes Wrong -- 11. Reply to Jackson and Pargetter -- 12. Newcomb's Problem: A Stalemate -- 13. Common Causes, Smoking, and Lung Cancer -- IV. IS THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA A NEWCOMB PROBLEM? -- 14. Prisoners' Dilemma Is a Newcomb Problem -- 15. Is the Symmetry Argument Valid? -- 16. Not Every Prisoner's Dilemma Is a Newcomb Problem -- V. COOPERATION IN REPEATED AND MANY-PERSON PRISONER'S DILEMMAS -- 17. The Insoluble Problem of the Social Contract -- 18. Utility Maximizers in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemmas -- 19. The Emergence of Cooperation among Egoists -- 20. Individual Sanctions, Collective Benefits -- Biographical Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited.

This anthology, the first to bring together the most important philosophical essays on the paradoxes, analyses the concepts underlying the Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem and evaluates the proposed solutions.

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