Title: Evolution and progress in democracies : towards new foundations of a knowledge society /
Authors: Götschl, Johann.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Social evolution.; Social change.
Contents: Introduction / Johann Gotschl -- Pt. I. Foundational Aspects: Game Theory and the Evolutionary Dynamic of Democracies -- Games with Incomplete Information / John C. Harsanyi -- Empiricist Remarks on Harsanyi's Model of "Games with Incomplete Information" / Werner Leinfellner -- Social Ontology and the Philosophy of Society / John R. Searle -- Pt. II. Evolutionary Dynamic and Complexity in Democracies -- On Evolutive Dynamics of Knowledge Production. Some Implications for Democracy / Johann Gotschl -- Market Uncertainty and the Process of Belief Formation / Bertrand R. Munier -- Aspects of Uncertainty and Complexity in Technologies and Technosystems / Gerhard Rosegger -- How Does Complexity Arise in Evolution? Nature's Recipes for Mastering Scarcity, Abundance, and Unpredictability / Peter Schuster -- Pt. III. New Bayesian Stochastic Methods and Rule-Bounded Methods in the Social Sciences -- Bayes without Bernoulli: Simple Conditions for Probabilistic Choice / Mark J. Machina and David Schmeidler -- Pragmatic Rationality and Rules / Edward F. McClennen -- Towards a Bayesian Theory of Self-Organization, Societal Evolution, Creativity, and the Role of Randomizers in the Societal Evolution / Werner Leinfellner -- Pt. IV. The Psychological and Neurophysiological Aspects -- Spin-Offs of Game Theory to Social Psychology, Theoretical Biology and Philosophy / Anatol Rapoport -- Debates on the Utility of Risk. A Look Back to Move Forward / Robin E. Pope -- Dynamic Self-Organization of the Cerebral Network: Evidence from Neurospsychology / Marcel Kinsbourne -- Pt. V. Cooperation and Decision Making in Game Theory and in Democracies -- Automata for Repeated Games / Karl Sigmund -- An Application of Synergetics. Decision Making as Pattern Recognition / Hermann Haken.