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    Gintis

    contemporaryBehavioral Game Theory / Analytic Social Philosophy

    1940 – 2023

    Herbert Gintis (1940–2023) was an American behavioral economist and game theorist known for integrating evolutionary biology, economics, and philosophy to explain human cooperation and rationality. His work on epistemic game theory and the foundations of social science engaged closely with philosophers like Robert Aumann and Robert Stalnaker on the logic of rational agents.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Co-authored A Cooperative Species, advancing the theory of strong reciprocity in human evolution

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    Developed formal analyses of epistemic game theory and common knowledge assumptions

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    Contributed to the Santa Fe Institute's research on complexity and behavioral economics

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    Co-edited Moral Sentiments and Material Interests, linking ethics to experimental economics

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    Authored The Bounds of Reason, unifying decision theory across the behavioral sciences

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    The difference in conclusions between Aumann (1995) and Stalnaker (1998) is due to differing models of belief revision upon deviation from the backward induction path

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    The difference in conclusions between Aumann (1995) and Stalnaker (1998) is due to differing models of belief revision upon deviation from the backward induction path

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