Game Theory and the Humanities
Bridging Two Worlds
How game theory can offer insights into literary, historical, and philosophical texts ranging from Macbeth to Supreme Court decisions.Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics, common in political science, and increasingly used in psychology and sociology; in evolutionary biology, they offer compelling explanations for competition in nature. But game theory has been only sporadically applied to the humanities; indeed, we almost never associate mathematical calculations of strategic choice with the worlds of literature, history, and philosophy. And yet, as Steven Brams shows, game theory can illuminate the rational choices made by charact…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-51825-3
- EAN: 9780262518253
- Produktnummer: 13147735
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.6 cm 456 g
- Abbildungen: 35 figures, 1 table; 36 Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 456
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Steven J. Brams is Professor of Politics at New York University. He is the author of Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible and Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds, both published by the MIT Press, and other books.
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