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Routledge
Can computer scientists contribute to the solution of societal problems? Can logic help to model social interactions? Are there recipes for making groups with diverging preferences arrive at reasonable decisions? Why is common knowledge important for social interaction? Does the rational pursuit of individual interests put the public interest in danger, and if so, why? Discourses on Social... Read more
Preface, List of Authors, 1 Chapter 1: Introductory Conversation, Chapter 2: Replies to Angry, Prag and Star, Chapter 3: What is Social Software?, Chapter 4: A Guest Lecture on Social Software, Chapter 5: Social Software and the Social Sciences, Chapter 6: On Social Choice Theory, Chapter 7: Ends and Means, Values and Virtues, Chapter 8: Common Knowledge and Common Belief, Chapter 9: Game Theory, Logic and Rational Choice, Chapter 10: What is Protocol Analysis?, Chapter 11: Dynamic Epistemic Logic for Protocol Analysis, Chapter 12: Battle of the Logics, Chapter 13: Eating from the Tree of Ignorance, Chapter 14: On Collective Rational Action, Chapter 15: Social Software and the Ills of Society, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Edited by Jan Van Eijck, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Rineke Verbrugge, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
