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Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation : Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem by Lanning Sowden (1985, Trade Paperback)

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PARADOXES OF RATIONALITY AND COOPERATION: PRISONER'S DILEMMA AND NEWCOMB'S PROBLEM By Richmond Campbell & Lanning Sowden **Mint Condition**.

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PublisherUniversity of British Columbia Press

ISBN-100774802154

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Number of Pages367 Pages

Publication NameParadoxes of Rationality and Cooperation : Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1985

SubjectGeneral, Logic

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy

AuthorLanning Sowden

FormatTrade Paperback

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ReviewsThis book makes a very interesting text with a well chosen range of views. I recommend it highly, even for the general philosophical reader. - James Cargile, Nous, This book makes a very interesting text with a well chosen range of views. I recommend it highly, even for the general philosophical reader.

Table Of ContentPreface I. Introduction 1. Background for the Uninitiated / Richard Campbell II. Morality and the Possibility of RationalCooperation 2. Prisoners, Paradox, and Rationality / Lawrence H.Davis 3. Second Thoughts on Self-Interest and Morality / JohnWatkins 4. Maximization Constrained: The Rationality of Cooperation /David Gauthier 5. Prisoner's Dilemma and Resolute Choice / Edward F.McClennen III. Evidential Versus Causal Decision Theory 6. Newcomb's Problem and Two Principles of Choice / RobertNozick 7. Counterfactuals and Two Kinds of Expected Utility / AllanGibbard and William L. Harper 8. Counterfactuals and Newcomb's Problem / TerenceHorgan 9. Causality, Decision, and Newcomb's Paradox / ElleryEells 10. Where the Tickle Defense Goes Wrong / Frank Jackson andRobert Pargetter 11. Reply to Jackson and Pargetter / Ellery Eells 12. Newcomb's Problem: A Stalemate / Terence Horgan 13. Common Causes, Smoking, and Lung Cancer / IsaacLevi IV. Is the Prisoner's Dilemma a NewcombProblem? 14. Prisoner's Dilemma Is a Newcomb Problem / DavidLewis 15. Is the Symmetry Argument Valid? / Lawrence H. Davis 16. Not Every Prisoner's Dilemma Is a Newcomb Problem /Jordan Howard Sobel V. Cooperation In Repeated and Many-Person Prisoner'sDilemmas 17. The Insoluble Problem of the Social Contract / DavidBraybrooke 18. Utility Maximizers in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemmas /Jordan Howard Sobel 19. The Emergence of Cooperation among Egoists / RobertAxelrod 20. Individual Sanctions, Collective Benefits / RussellHardin Biographical Notes Bibliography of Works Cited

SynopsisThis 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., The Prisoner's Dilemma is a famous problem in game theory. Inits simplest form, two players are faced with independent choices: tocooperate or not to cooperate. Each does better if both cooperate thanif neither does; but each does better if he does not cooperate whateverthe other does. The outcome of their choice can be the differencebetween life and death. Philosophers see this problem as an abstactmodel of the classic conflict between self-interest and a sociallyadvantageous moral order. Some philosophers have argued that it is aspecial case of Newcomb's Problem, technically a puzzle inmathematical decision theory. There is a deep division amongstphilosophers over the nature and extent of the relationship betweenthese two dilemmas. Both, however, threaten the foundations of ethicaland political theory, even the social sciences, for they cast doubt onour understanding of rational behaviour. This anthology, the first to bring together the most importantphilosophical essays on the paradoxes, analyses the concepts underlyingthe Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem and evaluates theproposed solutions. The relevant theories have been developed over thepast four decades in a variety of disciplines: mathematics, economics,psychology, political science, biology, and philosophy. And theproblems these paradoxes uncover can arise in many different forms: indebates over nuclear disarmament, labour-management disputes, maritalconflicts, Calvinist theology, and even in the evolution of diseasethrough the "cooperation" of microorganisms. Thepossibilities for application are virtually limitless. The introduction gives the uninitiated reader sufficient backgroundto cope with the technical aspects of the discussions as well as to seehow the articles are linked together in an on-going dialectic. Many ofthe essays are already considered classics in the field; others, notpreviously published, provide responses to objections that have beenmade against the authors' earlier positions. Although designedprimarily for philosophers and philosophy students, Paradoxes ofRationality and Cooperation has broad implications for otherdisciplines as well as for interested non-specialists.