Wynn Stirling is a contemporary researcher working in decision theory and game theory, with contributions to the foundations of rational choice in strategic interaction. His work examines the logical consistency of solution concepts in extensive-form games, particularly challenging the coherence of backward induction as a prescriptive norm for rational agents.
Argued that backward induction is self-undermining as a solution concept in certain extensive-form games
Contributed to foundational debates about rationality assumptions in non-cooperative game theory
Applied decision-theoretic analysis to paradoxes of sequential rational choice