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.

Day 1: Introduction to game theory

August 15, 2022

Day 2: Conditionals in strategic games and the independence assumption

August 16, 2022

Day 3: Dropping the independence assumption

August 17, 2022

Day 4: Conditionals in extensive form games I

August 18, 2022

Day 5: Conditionals in extensive form games II and concluding remarks

August 19, 2022

S. Huttegger and G. Rothfus, Bradley Conditionals and Dynamic Choice

I. Canavotto and E. Pacuit, Choice-driven counterfactuals