Conflict, complexity and mathematical social science

• Other Authors: Burt, Gordon
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
• Series: Contributions to conflict management, peace economics and development ; v. 15.
• Subjects: Political Science > General.; Social Science > Sociology > General.; Political science & theory.; Mathematical logic.; Social conflict > Mathematical models.

Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science provides a foundational mathematical approach to the modelling of social conflict. The book illustrates how theory and evidence can be mathematically deepened and how investigations grounded in social choice theory can provide the evidence needed...

Table of Contents:

• ch. 1. Introduction and overview / Gordon Burt
• ch. 2. Set theory and social reality / Gordon Burt
• ch. 3. Mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence and ordinary language / Gordon Burt
• ch. 4. Possibility and probability : value, conflict and choice / Gordon Burt
• ch. 5. Theory, evidence and reality : the mean and median ideals of competing groups / Gordon Burt
• ch. 6. Social design, ethics and the amount of value / Gordon Burt
• ch. 7. Change, multiple-entity systems and complexity / Gordon Burt
• ch. 8. Mathematical psychology / Gordon Burt
• ch. 9. Models of individual choice / Gordon Burt
• ch. 10. Mathematical sociology / Gordon Burt
• ch. 11. Mathematical political science and game theory / Gordon Burt
• ch. 12. The mathematical economics of social participation : complexity / Gordon Burt
• ch. 13. Life and history : the speculative pursuit of value / Gordon Burt
• ch. 14. World history : the growth and distribution dynamics of power, truth and value / Gordon Burt
• ch. 15. Debating the mathematical science approach to international relations / Gordon Burt.