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    It is not the case that Agents trapped in a Prisoner's Dilemma are stuck in the inefficient outcome due to the logic of their situation, not their psychology

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    • 1.Amartya Sen's 'isolation paradox' shows agents with rank-ordered preferences over others' outcomes can transform the payoff structure itself.
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    • 2.If sympathy or commitment (Sen 1977) alters an agent's utility function, the game they are actually playing is no longer a Prisoner's Dilemma.
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    • 3.Therefore, the 'logic of the situation' presupposes a psychological stipulation—self-interested preference ordering—that is doing the explanatory work.
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    • 1.David Gauthier argues in 'Morals by Agreement' that agents who are transparent and disposed to conditional cooperation can rationally defect from standard dominance reasoning.
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    • 2.If constrained maximizers can achieve cooperative outcomes within the same payoff matrix, the inefficient outcome follows from a specific psychological assumption, not situational logic alone.
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    • 1.The Prisoner's Dilemma is defined by a payoff structure, not by the psychological dispositions of the agents
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    • 2.If agents are genuinely in a Prisoner's Dilemma payoff structure, the dominant strategy logic applies regardless of their attitudes toward each other
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