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oapen-20.500.12657-554372022-06-01T03:33:04Z Course notes on finite games and rational choice Bruni, Riccardo bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPL Philosophy: logic bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science This book collects notes that were prepared for a university course taught in the Spring of 2018, and delivered to an audience of students enrolled in the Master course in Logic, philosophy and history of science of the University of Florence. The goal of the course was to introduce students to some basic concepts from the area of research generally known as decision theory. This is done by focussing on the concept of ‘rational choice’, which is analyzed, methodologically speaking, by the means of the theory of games. To minimize prerequisites it was decided to restrict the attention to the theory of finite games in particular. The topics treated are vary, and belongs to both the theory of games ‘in normal form’ as well as that of games ‘in extensive form’, as they are usually referred to. The classical issues in both fields, such as the theory of ‘equilibria’ and the study of properties such as determinacy, are carefully discussed to make them clear to beginners and are addressed from a novel perspective which makes use of formal methods that are typical of researches connected with the study of logic. 2022-05-31T10:29:58Z 2022-05-31T10:29:58Z 2018 book ONIX_20220531_9788864538310_721 2704-5862 9788864538310 9788864538327 9788892730526 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/55437 eng Manuali – Umanistica application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9788864538310.pdf https://books.fupress.com/isbn/9788864538310 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-6453-831-0 10.36253/978-88-6453-831-0 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788864538310 9788864538327 9788892730526 14 182 Florence open access
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This book collects notes that were prepared for a university course taught in the Spring of 2018, and delivered to an audience of students enrolled in the Master course in Logic, philosophy and history of science of the University of Florence. The goal of the course was to introduce students to some basic concepts from the area of research generally known as decision theory. This is done by focussing on the concept of ‘rational choice’, which is analyzed, methodologically speaking, by the means of the theory of games. To minimize prerequisites it was decided to restrict the attention to the theory of finite games in particular. The topics treated are vary, and belongs to both the theory of games ‘in normal form’ as well as that of games ‘in extensive form’, as they are usually referred to. The classical issues in both fields, such as the theory of ‘equilibria’ and the study of properties such as determinacy, are carefully discussed to make them clear to beginners and are addressed from a novel perspective which makes use of formal methods that are typical of researches connected with the study of logic.
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