In Volume 1 of Game Theory and the Social Contract, Ken Binmore restated                  the problems of moral and political philosophy in the language of game theory. In                  Volume 2, Just Playing, he unveils his own controversial theory, which abandons the                  metaphysics of Immanuel Kant for the naturalistic approach to morality of David                  Hume. According to this viewpoint, a fairness norm is a convention that evolved to                  coordinate behavior on an equilibrium of a society's Game of Life. This approach                  allows Binmore to mount an evolutionary defense of Rawls's original position that                  escapes the utilitarian conclusions that follow when orthodox reasoning is applied                  with the traditional assumptions. Using ideas borrowed from the theory of bargaining                  and repeated games, Binmore is led instead to a form of egalitarianism that                  vindicates the intuitions that led Rawls to write his Theory of Justice.Written for                  an interdisciplinary audience, Just Playing offers a panoramic tour through a range                  of new and disturbing insights that game theory brings to anthropology, biology,                  economics, philosophy, and psychology. It is essential reading for anyone who thinks                  it likely that ethics evolved along with the human species.

Game Theory and the Social Contract, Vol. 2: Just Playing (Economic Learning and Social Evolution) PDF

The list of books you might like