Skyrms, Brian

Overview

Works:	56 works in 329 publications in 6 languages and 9,816 library holdings
Genres:	Conference papers and proceedings
Roles:	Author, Editor, Other, Thesis advisor, Contributor, Honoree, Author of introduction
Classifications:	BC91, 161

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Brian Skyrms

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Most widely held works by Brian Skyrms

Choice and chance; an introduction to inductive logic by Brian Skyrms( Book )

56 editions published between 1966 and 2010 in English and German and held by 1,011 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Evolution of the social contract by Brian Skyrms( Book )

34 editions published between 1996 and 2014 in English and held by 729 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this pithy and highly readable book, Brian Skyrms, a recognised authority on game and decision theory, investigates traditional problems of the social contract in terms of evolutionary dynamics. Game theory is skilfully employed to offer new interpretations of a wide variety of social phenomena, including justice, mutual aid, commitment, convention and meaning. The author eschews any grand, unified theory. Rather, he presents the reader with tools drawn from evolutionary game theory for the purpose of analysing and coming to understand the social contract. The book is not technical and requires no special background knowledge. As such, it could be enjoyed by students and professionals in a wide range of disciplines: political science, philosophy, decision theory, economics and biology

Causal necessity : a pragmatic investigation of the necessity of laws by Brian Skyrms( Book )

14 editions published in 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pragmatics and empiricism by Brian Skyrms( Book )

8 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 407 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The stag hunt and the evolution of social structure by Brian Skyrms( Book )

22 editions published between 2003 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action. The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality. Rousseau contrasts hunting hare, where the risk of noncooperation is small but the reward is equally small, with hunting the stag, where maximum cooperation is required but the reward is much greater. Rational agents are pulled in one direction by considerations of risk and in another by considerations of mutual benefit."

The dynamics of rational deliberation by Brian Skyrms( Book )

8 editions published in 1990 in English and Spanish and held by 383 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The dynamics of norms( Book )

10 editions published between 1996 and 2009 in English and held by 339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In the social sciences norms are sometimes taken to play a key explanatory role. Yet norms differ from group to group, from society to society, and from species to species. How are norms formed and how do they change?" "This "state-of-the-art" collection of essays presents some of the best contemporary research into the dynamical processes underlying the formation, maintenance, metamorphosis, and dissolution of norms. The volume combines formal modeling with more traditional analysis, and considers biological and cultural evolution, individual learning, and rational deliberation." "In filling a significant gap in the current literature this volume will be of particular interest to economists, political scientists, and sociologists, in addition to philosophers of the social sciences."--Jacket

Probability and conditionals : belief revision and rational decision by Ellery Eells( Book )

7 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 295 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is a state-of-the-art collection of essays on the relation between probabilities, especially conditional probabilities, and conditionals. It provides new negative results that sharply limit the ways conditionals can be related to conditional probabilities. There are also positive ideas and results that will open up new areas of research. The collection is intended to honor Ernest W. Adams, whose seminal work is largely responsible for creating this area of inquiry. In addition to describing, evaluating, and applying Adams's work, these contributions extend his ideas in directions he may or may not have anticipated, but that he certainly inspired. This volume should be of interest to a wide range of philosophers of science, as well as to computer scientists and linguists

Signals : evolution, learning, & information by Brian Skyrms( Book )

23 editions published between 2010 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Brian Skyrms offers a demonstration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses various scientific tools to examine how meaning & communication develop. Signals operate in networks of senders & receivers at all levels of life, transmitting & processing information. That is how humans & animals think & interact

The logic of strategy by Cristina Bicchieri( Book )

13 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This philosophical study of rationality and knowledge, includes causal versus evidential decision theory, and counterfactual reasoning in games. And analyzes common knowledge assumptions in game theory, and evaluations of the normal versus extensive form formulations of complex decision problems

Causation, chance, and credence by Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation( Book )

15 editions published between 1985 and 1988 in English and held by 181 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Logic, methodology, and philosophy of science IX : proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, Sweden, August 7-14, 1991 by Methodology and Philosophy of Science International Congress of Logic( Book )

17 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and held by 177 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume is the product of the Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and contains the text of most of the invited lectures. Divided into 15 sections, the book covers a wide range of different issues. The reader is given the opportunity to learn about the latest thinking in relevant areas other than those in which they themselves may normally specialise

Existence and explanation : essays presented in honor of Karel Lambert by Wolfgang Spohn( Book )

6 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 157 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This collection of essays is dedicated to 'Joe' Karel Lambert. The contributors are all personally affected to Joe in some way or other, but they are definitely not the only ones. Whatever excuses there are - there are some -, the editors apologize to whomever they have neglected. But even so the collection displays how influential Karel Lambert has been, personally and through his teaching and his writings. The display is in alphabetical order - with one exception: Bas van Fraassen, being about the earliest student of Karel Lambert, opens the collection with some reminiscences. Naturally, one of the focal points of this volume is Lambert's logical thinking and (or: freed of) ontological thinking. Free logic is intimately connected with description theory. Bas van Fraassen gives a survey of the development of the area, and Charles Daniels points to difficulties with definite descriptions in modal contexts and stories. Peter Woodruff addresses the relation between free logic and supervaluation semantics, presenting a novel condition which recovers desirable metatheoretic properties for free logic under that semantics. Terence Parsons shows how free logic can be utilized in interpreting sentences as purporting to denote events (true ones succeed and false ones fail) and how this helps to understand natural language

From Zeno to arbitrage : essays on quantity, coherence, and induction by Brian Skyrms( Book )

13 editions published between 2012 and 2013 in English and held by 144 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Brian Skyrms presents a set of influential essays which deploy formal methods to address epistemological and metaphysical questions. The first part of the book focuses on quantity; the second on degrees of belief, belief revision, and coherence; the third on aspects of inductive reasoning

Social dynamics by Brian Skyrms( Book )

15 editions published in 2014 in English and held by 136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Important essays by a leading expert in the field Trailblazing work at the scientific end of philosophy Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. Interactions with neighbors in space, on static networks, and on co-evolving dynamics networks are investigated. Spontaneous emergence of social structure and of signaling systems are examined in the context of learning dynamics."--Back cover

Causation in decision, belief change, and statistics by Irvine conference on Probability and causation( Book )

7 editions published between 1985 and 1988 in English and held by 132 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Introduzione alla logica induttiva by Brian Skyrms( Book )

9 editions published between 1966 and 1974 in 3 languages and held by 31 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science IX by Dag Prawitz( Book )

3 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume is the product of the Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and contains the text of most of the invited lectures. Divided into 15 sections, the book covers a wide range of different issues. The reader is given the opportunity to learn about the latest thinking in relevant areas other than those in which they themselves may normally specialise

Causation, Chance and Credence by Brian Skyrms( )

1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The papers collected here are, with three exceptions, those presented at a conference on probability and causation held at the University of California at Irvine on July 15-19, 1985. The exceptions are that David Freedman and Abner Shimony were not able to contribute the papers that they presented to this volume, and that Clark Glymour who was not able to attend the conference did contribute a paper. We would like to thank the National Science Foundation and the School of Humanities of the University of California at Irvine for generous support. WILLIAM HARPER University of Western Ontario BRIAN SKYRMS University of California at Irvine VII INTRODUCTION TO CAUSATION, CHANCE, AND CREDENCE The search for causes is so central to science that it has sometimes been taken as the defining attribute of the scientific enterprise. Yet even after twenty-five centuries of philosophical analysis the meaning of "cause" is still a matter of controversy, among scientists as well as philosophers. Part of the problem is that the servicable concepts of causation built out of Necessity, Sufficiency, Locality, and Temporal Precedence were constructed for a deterministic world-view which has been obsolete since the advent of quantum theory. A physically credible theory of causation must be, at basis, statistical. And statistical analyses of caus ation may be of interest even when an underlying deterministic theory is assumed, as in classical statistical mechanics

Causation in Decision, Belief Change, and Statistics Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation by William L Harper( )

1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The papers collected here are, with three exceptions, those presented at a conference on probability and causation held at the University of California at Irvine on July 15-19, 1985. The exceptions are that David Freedman and Abner Shimony were not able to contribute the papers that they presented to this volume, and that Clark Glymour who was not able to attend the conference did contribute a paper. We would like to thank the National Science Foundation and the School of Humanities of the University of California at Irvine for generous support. WILLIAM HARPER University of Western Ontario BRIAN SKYRMS University of California at Irvine Vll INTRODUCTION PART I: DECISIONS AND GAMES Causal notions have recently corne to figure prominently in discussions about rational decision making. Indeed, a relatively influential new approach to theorizing about rational choice has come to be called "causal decision theory". 1 Decision problems such as Newcombe's Problem and some versions of the Prisoner's Dilemma where an act counts as evidence for a desired state even though the agent knows his choice of that act cannot causally influence whether or not the state obtains have motivated causal decision theorists