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Divine Games : Game Theory and the Undecidability of a Superior Being /
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.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
MIT Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Game Theory; 1.3 The Question of Free Will; 2 Belief Decisions; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Pascal's Wager and the Search Decision; 2.3 The Concern Decision; 2.4 Conclusions; 3 Belief Games; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Belief Game 1; 3.3 Belief Game 2; 3.4 Conclusions; 4 Nonmyopic Equilibria in the Belief Games; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Nonmyopic Equilibria; 4.3 Nonmyopic Equilibria in Belief Games 1 and 2; 4.4 Conclusions; 5 Paradoxes of Prediction; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Newcomb's Problem.
- 5.3 Which Principle, and Is There a Conflict?5.4 Two Prediction Games; 5.5 The Paradox of Omniscience; 5.6 Conclusions; 6 The Constraint and Temptation Games; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Constraint Game: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; 6.3 The Temptation Game: Eve and the Serpent; 6.4 Conclusions; 7 Three Testing Games; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Testing Game 1: Abraham's Attempted Sacrifice of Isaac; 7.3 Testing Game 2: Jephthah's Sacrifice of His Daughter; 7.4 Testing Game 3: Job's Suffering at the Hands of Satan; 7.5 Conclusions; 8 The Incitement, Blame, and Deception Games; 8.1 Introduction.
- 8.2 The Incitement Game: Provoking Cain's Murder of Abel8.3 The Blame Game: Cain's Shifting of Blame for Abel's Murder to God; 8.4 The Deception Game: Inducing Saul to Be King, and Then Destroying His Kingship; 8.5 Conclusions; 9 The Defiance (Manipulated), Pursuit, and Salvation Games; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Enter Moses; 9.3 The Defiance (Manipulated) Game: Pharaoh and the Ten Plagues; 9.4 The Pursuit Game: Pharaoh and the Israelites in the Wilderness; 9.5 The Salvation Game: Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai; 9.6 Conclusions; 10 The Wisdom and Truth Games; 10.1 Introduction.
- 10.2 The Wisdom Game: King Solomon's Edict about the Disputed Baby10.3 The Truth Game: A Better Way to Elicit the Truth; 10.4 Conclusions; 11 Summary and Conclusions; 11.1 Undecidability in Decisions and Games; 11.2 Undecidability in the Bible; 11.3 Coda; Appendix; Glossary; References; Index; Index of Biblical Passages.