SOC SCI H1E Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Evolutionary Game Theory, Scientific Modelling, Vacuum Chamber
5 Jun 2019
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Readings for today used game theory & evolutionary game theory to: Argue that there are problems of cooperation/sociality for humans. Argue that evolved emotions & dispositions might help solve them. Remarkably good at cooperating & part of that is dispositions we have. These two papers use a different methodology popular in many social sciences -> scientific modeling. Some mapping from that structure onto a real world situation. Needs to be adequate to what trying to represent: build a structure that represents a phenomenon, find things out about that structure, apply those lessons to the phenomenon. Branch of mathematics used to represent & understand strategic interactions between humans. Any kind of interaction where multiple people interacting & care what other people are doing -> matter to you. > you make model called a game that defines: Coordination (want to do same thing or different thing)
