Amanda Friedenberg is a contemporary game theorist and philosopher whose work centers on epistemic game theory, interactive epistemology, and the foundations of strategic reasoning. She has contributed influential analyses of common knowledge, rationalizability, and backward induction, clarifying how differing formal models yield divergent conclusions about rational play.
Co-authored foundational work on epistemic conditions for backward induction and rationalizability
Clarified the role of model choice in reconciling Aumann (1995) and Stalnaker (1998) on backward induction
Advanced the theory of interactive epistemology and common belief in rationality
Contributed to the formal analysis of admissibility and iterated weak dominance
Published extensively in top economics and philosophy journals on strategic reasoning