Brams, Steven J.

Game theory and the humanities: bridging two worlds - Cambridge The MIT Press 2011 - xi, 319 p.

Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics, common in political science, and increasingly used in psychology and sociology; in evolutionary biology, they offer compelling explanations for competition in nature. But game theory has been only sporadically applied to the humanities; indeed, we almost never associate mathematical calculations of strategic choice with the worlds of literature, history, and philosophy. And yet, as Steven Brams shows, game theory can illuminate the rational choices made by characters in texts ranging from the Bible to Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and can explicate strategic questions in law, history, and philosophy. (http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12523)

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Game theory
Humanities - Mathematical models

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