The Prisoner's Dilemma

Martin Peterson is Sue and Harry E. Bovay Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A & M University. His recent publications include Non-Bayesian Decision Theory (2008), An Introduction to Decision Theory (Cambridge, 2009) and The Dimensions of Consequentialism (Cambridge, 2013).

Introduction Martin Peterson; 1. Why all the fuss? The many aspects of the Prisoner's Dilemma Ken Binmore; 2. How I learned to stop worrying and love the Prisoner's Dilemma David Gauthier; 3. Taking the Prisoner's Dilemma seriously: what can we learn from a trivial game? Daniel M. Hausman; 4. Prisoner's Dilemma doesn't explain much Robert Northcott and Anna Alexandrova; 5. The Prisoner's Dilemma and the coevolution of descriptive and predictive dispositions Jeffrey A. Barrett; 6. I cannot cheat on you after we talk Cristina Bicchieri and Alessandro Sontuoso; 7. Prisoner's Dilemma cannot be a Newcomb Problem José Luis Bermúdez; 8. Counterfactuals and the Prisoner's Dilemma Giacomo Bonanno; 9. The Tragedy of the Commons as a Voting Game Luc Bovens; 10. The role of numbers in Prisoner's Dilemmas and public good situations Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Brooks; 11. The inner struggle: why you should cooperate with people you will never meet again Martin Peterson; 12. Prisoner's Dilemmas, intergenerational asymmetry, and climate change ethics Douglas MacLean; 13. Prisoner's Dilemma experiments Charles Holt, Cathleen Johnson and David Schmidtz; 14. The lesson of the Prisoner's Dilemma Paul Weirich; Bibliography; Index.