Download or read book Divine Games written by Steven J. Brams and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game-theoretical analysis of interactions between a human being and an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being highlights the inherent unknowability of the latter's superiority. In Divine Games, Steven Brams analyzes games that a human being might play with an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being. Drawing on game theory and his own theory of moves, Brams combines the analysis of thorny theological questions, suggested by Pascal's wager (which considers the rewards and penalties associated with belief or nonbelief in God) and Newcomb's problem (in which a godlike being has near omniscience) with the analysis of several stories from the Hebrew Bible. Almost all of these stories involve conflict between God or a surrogate and a human player; their representation as games raises fundamental questions about God's superiority. In some games God appears vulnerable (after Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit in defiance of His command), in other games his actions seem morally dubious (when He subjects Abraham and Job to extreme tests of their faith), and in still other games He has a propensity to hold grudges (in preventing Moses from entering the Promised Land and in undermining the kingship of Saul). If the behavior of a superior being is indistinguishable from that of an ordinary human being, his existence would appear undecidable, or inherently unknowable. Consequently, Brams argues that keeping an open mind about the existence of a superior being is an appropriate theological stance.
Download or read book Temptation the Player the Game written by J. Galloway and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temptation, the Player, the Game asks its readers a simple but maybe hard question, and that is, “Is wrong ever right?” Think before you answer. You may be wrong. What happens when you lose everything that matters to you? Family, your wealth, the confidence of your existence, and your will to live? Wonder if your faith has been challenged big time and the god you thought to be a friend was no longer a friend? Wonder if all your lifelines were gone, and there was no one to call for help in your time of real need? How would you feel to know that once, not too long ago, you were a multimillionaire and money, family, and life was real good? How would it feel to now be at your rock bottom, now staring at your doom? You want to live, but death’s on your back, and it’s a throwdown—who wins? Wonder if you received a call on a phone you thought to be disconnected, and on the other end is a call that may change your life? But it’s an old crime mate of yours. Do you answer or not? We explore all those questions and more with a lot of twists and turns as you journey along with the main characters, Shameek Johnson and Supreme Jackson, as they go from small time to big time too. I promise you will be surprised at the decision they will make to continue to exist. So again, Is wrong ever right? Buckle up. There is no speed limit here. Welcome to Temptation, the Player, the Game.
Download or read book Playing with Temptation written by Erika Wilde and published by Janelle Denison, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Raina Beck is given an invitation to The Players Club, all she wants is a night of decadence with a gorgeous, sexy stranger. The seductive, mysterious man she meets fulfills her deepest desires, giving her a night she’ll never forget. But forgetting him isn’t quite so easy. Logan Cruz prefers his women submissive and compliant in the bedroom…everything the independent Raina is not. Yet from the first moment he lays eyes on her, he’s determined to make Raina his. Despite her resistance. When Logan is assigned to protect Raina from a stalker, everything between them changes and emotions run deep. Falling in love was never on Raina’s agenda, but can she let go of the past and surrender the one thing he wants the most . . . her heart?
Download or read book Action Theory and Social Science written by I. Pörn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended as a contribution to the foundations of the sciences of man, especially the social sciences. It has been argued with increasing frequency in recent years that the vocabulary of social science is to a large extent an action vocabulary and that any attempt to systematize concepts and establish bases for understanding in the field cannot, therefore, succeed unless it is firmly built on action theory. I think that these claims are sub stantially correct, but at the same time it seems to me that action theory, as it is relevant to social science, still awaits vital contributions from logic and philosophy. For example, it has often been said, rightly I believe, that situa tions in which two or more agents interact constitute the subject-matter of social science. But have we got an action theory which is rich enough or com prehensive enough to allow us to characterize the interaction situation? I think not. Once we have such a theory, however, we should be able to give an accurate account of central social phenomena and to articulate our concep tions about the nature of social reality. The conceptual scheme advanced in this book consists, in the first instance, of solutions to a number of characterization problems, i. e. problems which may be expressed by questions of the form "What is the nature of . . .
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Download or read book A Long Run Collaboration on Long Run Games written by Drew Fudenberg and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the joint work of Drew Fudenberg and David Levine (through 2008) on the closely connected topics of repeated games and reputation effects, along with related papers on more general issues in game theory and dynamic games. The unified presentation highlights the recurring themes of their work.
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Download or read book Nested Games written by George Tsebelis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-08-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, Nested Games provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions.
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Download or read book Radicals Reformers and Reactionaries written by Youssef Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-10-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American democracies of the sixties and seventies, most theories hold, collapsed because they had become incompatible with the structural requirements of capitalist development. In this groundbreaking application of game theory to political phenomena, Youssef Cohen argues that structural conditions in Latin American countries did not necessarily preclude the implementation of social and economic reforms within a democratic framework. Focusing on the experiences of Chile and Brazil, Cohen argues that what thwarted democratic reforms in Latin America was a classic case of prisoner's dilemma. Moderates on the left and the right knew the benefits of coming to a mutual agreement on socio-economic reforms. Yet each feared that, if it cooperated, the other side could gain by colluding with the radicals. Unwilling to take this risk, moderate groups in both countries splintered and joined the extremists. The resulting disorder opened the way for military control. Cohen further argues that, in general, structural explanations of political phenomena are inherently flawed; they incorrectly assume that beliefs, preferences, and actions are caused by social, political, and economic structures. One cannot explain political outcomes, Cohen argues, without treating beliefs and preferences as partly independent from structures, and as having a causal force in their own right.
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Download or read book Cognitive Wireless Networks written by Frank H. P. Fitzek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advocates the idea of breaking up the cellular communication architecture by introducing cooperative strategies among wireless devices through cognitive wireless networking. It details the cooperative and cognitive aspects for future wireless communication networks. Coverage includes social and biological inspired behavior applied to wireless networks, peer-to-peer networking, cooperative networks, and spectrum sensing and management.
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