Strategic Justice Convention and Problems of Balancing Divergent Interests

by Vanderschraaf, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780190213336
• ISBN10: 0190213337
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2018-11-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Peter P. Vanderschraaf is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Merced. He works in social philosophy and game theory. He has held visiting appointments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Boston University, and the School of Social Sciences of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Dilemmas of Interaction
Chapter 2. Coordination, Conflict and Convention
Chapter 3. The Circumstances of Justice
Chapter 4. The Dynamics of Anarchy
Chapter 5. Playing Fair
Chapter 6. A Limited Leviathan
Chapter 7. The Foole, the Shepherd and the Knave
Chapter 8. Justice as Mutual Advantage?
Appendix 1. Formal Definition of Convention
Appendix 2. Computer Simulations of Inductive Learning in Games
Appendix 3. Folk Theorems for the Indefinitely Repeated Covenant Game
Appendix 4. Humean Conventions of the Repeated Sovereignty and Repeated Provider-Recipient Gamed
References
Index