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How Much Rationality Do We Need to Explain Conventions?
Author(s) -
Huttegger Simon M.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/phc3.12100
Subject(s) - rationality , epistemology , perspective (graphical) , language game , computer science , game theory , sociology , philosophy , mathematical economics , economics , artificial intelligence
This article surveys the main philosophical and formal ideas revolving around language as being conventional from the perspective of game theory. For very basic situations, this leads to a coherent view of conventions that offers interesting insights. Although there exist many open problems, this article will argue by outlining partial solution attempts that there is no principled reason for not applying methods from game theory to them.