The Prisoner's Dilemma

Martin Peterson is Sue and Harry E. Bovay Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A & M University. His recent publications include Non-Bayesian Decision Theory (2008), An Introduction to Decision Theory (Cambridge, 2009) and The Dimensions of Consequentialism (Cambridge, 2013).

• Introduction Martin Peterson; 1. Why all the fuss? The many aspects of the Prisoner's Dilemma Ken Binmore; 2. How I learned to stop worrying and love the Prisoner's Dilemma David Gauthier; 3. Taking the Prisoner's Dilemma seriously: what can we learn from a trivial game? Daniel M. Hausman; 4. Prisoner's Dilemma doesn't explain much Robert Northcott and Anna Alexandrova; 5. The Prisoner's Dilemma and the coevolution of descriptive and predictive dispositions Jeffrey A. Barrett; 6. I cannot cheat on you after we talk Cristina Bicchieri and Alessandro Sontuoso; 7. Prisoner's Dilemma cannot be a Newcomb Problem José Luis Bermúdez; 8. Counterfactuals and the Prisoner's Dilemma Giacomo Bonanno; 9. The Tragedy of the Commons as a Voting Game Luc Bovens; 10. The role of numbers in Prisoner's Dilemmas and public good situations Geoffrey Brennan and Michael Brooks; 11. The inner struggle: why you should cooperate with people you will never meet again Martin Peterson; 12. Prisoner's Dilemmas, intergenerational asymmetry, and climate change ethics Douglas MacLean; 13. Prisoner's Dilemma experiments Charles Holt, Cathleen Johnson and David Schmidtz; 14. The lesson of the Prisoner's Dilemma Paul Weirich; Bibliography; Index.

'… the book provides a good overview of the variety of perspectives on the rational solutions to the Prisoner's dilemma, as well as of the increasing doubts regarding its descriptive and explanatory scope.' Cédric Paternotte, Metascience