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Philosophy Logic

Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation

Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcomb's Problem

edited by Richmond Campbell & Lanning Sowden

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1985
Category
Logic
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774857154
    Publish Date
    Jan 1985
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774802154
    Publish Date
    Jan 1985
    List Price
    $34.95

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Description

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. The relevant theories have been developed over the past four decades in a variety of disciplines: mathematics, economics, psychology, political science, biology, and philosophy. And the problems these paradoxes uncover can arise in many different forms: in debates over nuclear disarmament, labour-management disputes, marital conflicts, Calvinist theology, and even in the evolution of disease through the "cooperation" of microorganisms. The possibilities for application are virtually limitless.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Richmond Campbell (editor) is a professor in the philosophy department at Dalhousie University. He is the author of Self-Love and Self-Respect: A Philosophical Study of Egoism (1979). Lanning Sowden (editor) is a Research Fellow at La Trobe University in Australia.

Editorial Reviews

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

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