Table of Contents

Part 1 A liberal leviathan: whiggery; deKanting Rawls; Behemoth and the market; elephants and donkeys. Part 2 Toying with tautologies: equilibrium; games and the social contract; my dear sir, clear your mind of Cant!; time and commitment; really meaning it. Part 3 Squaring the circle: transparent disposition fallacies; the symmetry fallacy; paradox of the twins; Newcomb's paradox; paradox of the surprise test. Part 4 Cardinal comparisons: ordinal and cardinal utility; intrapersonal comparison of utility; interpersonal comparison of utility; Kant and the prisoners' dilemma; Bayesian decision theory; Rawlsian maximin; the game of morals.

About the Author

Ken Binmore is Emeritus Professor at University College London. A Fellow of the Econometric Society and the British Academy, he is the author of Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 1: Playing Fair (1994) and Volume 2: Just Playing (1998), and the coeditor of Frontiers of Game Theory (1993), all three published by The MIT Press.