Conditionals in Game Theory
Instructor: Eric Pacuit (website)
ESSLLI 2022 • National University of Ireland Galway
Monday, August 15th - Friday, August 19th
9:00am - 10:30am • AC203
Reasoning about conditionals, such as ``If I do action $a$, the outcome will be $c$", plays an important role when studying the foundations of game theory. This course will introduce game theory with a special emphasis on the puzzles and paradoxes that involve reasoning about conditionals (such as the Prisoner's Dilemma and the Aumann-Stalnaker debate about backwards induction). This course will provide a solid foundation for students interested in studying the semantics of conditionals and for students interested in using ideas from game theory in their own field of study.
R. Aumann (1987), Correlated Equilibrium as an Expression of Bayesian Rationality
O. Board (2006), The Equivalence of Bayes and Causal Rationality in Games
J. Halpern, Substantive rationality and backward induction
S. Huttegger and G. Rothfus, Bradley Conditionals and Dynamic Choice
I. Canavotto and E. Pacuit, Choice-driven counterfactuals