| Kevin J.S. Zollman | Department of Philosophy |
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| Carnegie Mellon University |
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Game Theory (Spring 2009) Understanding how people should and do make decisions is an important study for a variety of different disciplines. Economics, sociology, philosophy, and even biology all attempt to understand the process of making decisions. Some decisions are made in a context where the outcomes are determined by a single person's choice and some random events. Other decisions are more complicated, they involve several different decision-makers all trying to do the best they can – but the best depends on what the other's do.
These so-called strategic situation surround us. Choosing investments, routes to the supermarket, and whether to honor a promise are all strategic choices and all are studied by game theory. This set of mathematical techniques attempts sometimes to predict people's decisions and at other times to justify them. This course focuses on this modeling. Along the way we will discuss it's philosophical foundations as well as its varied applications. This work (excluding papers) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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