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Social Dynamics by Brian Skyrms 9780199652839
Booksplease Price: £45.03Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and... -
Social Dynamics by Brian Skyrms 9780199652822
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £78.70Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and... -
Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms
Booksplease Price: £21.25In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice,... -
Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms 9781107077287
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice,... -
The Dynamics of Rational Deliberation by Brian Skyrms 9780674218857
RRP: £85.95Booksplease Price: £71.79Brian Skyrms constructs a theory of "dynamic deliberation" and uses it to investigate rational decision-making in cases of strategic interaction. This illuminating book will be of great interest to... -
The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure by Brian Skyrms
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Brian Skyrms, author of the successful Evolution of the Social Contract (which won the prestigious Lakatos Award) has written a sequel. The book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective... -
Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Information by Brian Skyrms 9780199582945
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.14Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools - theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning - to... -
Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Information by Brian Skyrms 9780199580828
Booksplease Price: £86.85Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools -- theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning -- to... -
The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure by Brian Skyrms 9780521826518
RRP: £101.00Booksplease Price: £95.89Brian Skyrms, author of the successful Evolution of the Social Contract (which won the prestigious Lakatos Award) has written a sequel. The book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective... -
From Zeno to Arbitrage: Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction by Brian Skyrms 9780199652815
RRP: £35.49Booksplease Price: £26.60Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays on the nature of quantity, probability, coherence, and induction. The first part explores the nature of quantity and includes essays on tractarian... -
From Zeno to Arbitrage: Essays on Quantity, Coherence, and Induction by Brian Skyrms 9780199652808
Booksplease Price: £99.93Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays on the nature of quantity, probability, coherence, and induction. The first part explores the nature of quantity and includes essays on tractarian... -
Rational Decision and Causality by Ellery Eells
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63First published in 1982, Ellery Eells' original work on rational decision making had extensive implications for probability theorists, economists, statisticians and psychologists concerned with... -
Modeling Rationality, Morality, and Evolution by Peter Danielson 9780195125498
Booksplease Price: £48.64This collection focuses on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of recent work on rational choice and evolution. Linking questions like "Is it rational to be moral?"... -
Modeling Rationality, Morality, and Evolution by Peter Danielson 9780195125504
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £83.12This collection focuses on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of recent work on rational choice and evolution. Linking questions like "Is it rational to be moral?"... -
The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility by Louis Narens 9780198856450
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £36.78Utilitarianism began as a movement for social reform that changed the world, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. There is a tendency to enter into debates for and against... -
The Pursuit of Happiness: Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Utility by Louis Narens
Booksplease Price: £19.84Utilitarianism began as a movement for social reform that changed the world, based on the ideal of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. There is a tendency to enter into debates for and against... -
Meaning, Decision, and Norms: Themes from the Work of Allan Gibbard by Billy Dunaway 9781607854647
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £51.19It is not an exaggeration to say that Allan Gibbard is one of the most significant contributors to philosophy over the last five decades. Gibbard's work covers an impressive number of subfields... -
The Domestication of Language: Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal by Daniel Cloud 9780231167925
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Language did not evolve only in the distant past. Our shared understanding of the meanings of words is ever-changing, and we make conscious, rational decisions about which words to use and what to... -
Probability and Conditionals: Belief Revision and Rational Decision by Ellery Eells 9780521453592
RRP: £98.99Booksplease Price: £94.11This collection of essays is on the relation between probabilities, especially conditional probabilities, and conditionals. It provides negative results which sharply limit the ways conditionals can... -
Probability and Conditionals: Belief Revision and Rational Decision by Ellery Eells 9780521039338
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21This collection of essays is on the relation between probabilities, especially conditional probabilities, and conditionals. It provides negative results which sharply limit the ways conditionals can... -
Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes by William F. Harms 9780521039215
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a... -
Probability, Dynamics and Causality: Essays in Honour of Richard C. Jeffrey by Domenico Costantini 9789401064095
Booksplease Price: £46.28The present volume contains the proceedings of the conference on "Prob- ability, dynamics and causality" that took place in Luino on June 15-17, 1995. This was the third conference on topics related... -
Ten Great Ideas about Chance by Persi Diaconis 9780691196398
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statisticsIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from... -
Ten Great Ideas about Chance by Persi Diaconis 9780691174167
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statistics In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance... -
The Structural Evolution of Morality by J. McKenzie Alexander 9780521152693
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98It is certainly the case that morality governs the interactions that take place between individuals. But what if morality exists because of these interactions? This book, first published in 2007,... -
Science, Ethics, and Politics: Conversations and Investigations by Kristen Renwick Monroe
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94The relationship between science and ethics has been subject to much debate. This volume demonstrates the mutually beneficial relationship that can take place between ethics and science. It presents... -
The Structural Evolution of Morality by J. McKenzie Alexander 9780521870320
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99It is certainly the case that morality governs the interactions that take place between individuals. But what if morality exists because of these interactions? This book, first published in 2007,... -
New Handbook of Mathematical Psychology: Volume 2, Modeling and Measurement by William H. Batchelder 9781009045407
Booksplease Price: £52.50The field of mathematical psychology began in the 1950s and includes both psychological theorizing, in which mathematics plays a key role, and applied mathematics motivated by substantive problems in... -
Spontaneous Order: How Norms, Institutions, and Innovations Emerge from the Bottom Up H. Peyton Young 9780198892908
RRP: £119.00Booksplease Price: £115.69Spontaneous Order brings together Peyton Young's research on evolutionary game theory and its diverse applications across a wide range of academic disciplines, including economics, sociology,... -
Rational Decisions by Ken Binmore
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should make decisions. However, Leonard Savage--the inventor of Bayesian decision theory--argued that it...