Prisoner's dilemma

The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod Background information about the author and the book Robert Axelrod is an American political scientist currently teaching Public Policies and Political Sciences at the University of Michigan, where he is the Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding. After graduating in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, he studied at Yale University, where he obtained a MBA and a PhD in Political Science. Axelrod has received countless awards…

During class on Wednesday, January 26, the students participated in a psychological game called prisoner’s dilemma. My group didn’t accumulate enough points throughout the game, so we were not able to receive full classwork credit. However the game and working in a group did share some of the same qualities, but are also different. Due to prisoner’s dilemma, I learned that when it comes to working in a group it takes communication, trust, and a sense of responsibility. Communication is key to…

Introduction In times of worldwide globalisation, customers receive more and more power on the market as they can choose more and more freely from where they like to buy their product or services. This leads to more balanced markets and a higher economic welfare as producers become price takers instead of price setters and can therefore barely ask exorbitant prices. Sometimes, however, several competing producers join into a cartel, in order to maximise their profits at the expense of the…

1. Answer the following questions: (answer a, b, and c) a. True or False: According to hedonism, physical pleasures are the only things intrinsically valuable. False b. True or False: According to Utilitarianism, justice is intrinsically valuable. False c. Questions a and b ask about what is and is not intrinsically valuable, according to Utilitarianism. Briefly explain the Utilitarian position on what is valuable by explaining your answers to questions a and b. Both answers are false.…

obvious--rational--choice, however, this is not the case. Not all individuals will react the same way and it would be naive to assume so. An example of this is in his prisoner’s dilemma. In the Leviathan, Hobbes explains the State of Nature like the prisoner’s dilemma (Hobbes, Ch. 13, 618). In this dilemma, two criminals…

to gain comes at the expense of another state creating a zero sum game (one state’s gain in power is another state’s loss). So as states gain more hard power the other states see them as a threat, causing a security dilemma. The security dilemma “is…

often played a significant role in philosophical debates within analytic philosophy (Knobe 2007: 81), particularly when dealing with moral questions. Indeed, analytic philosophers have often made use of people's intuitions in order to untangle moral dilemmas (Knobe 2007: 88). Although intuitions are usually given weight by analytic philosophers, it is often the case that their claims about people's intuitions…

History has affected the way all of us are living our lives right now to this day. It has led to new concepts that people have adopted, new technology, and new ideas that have evolved throughout time. Early modern Europe and the scientific revolution have contributed to the development of these conditions. Events that support these conditions are the Inquisition and Galileo, Thomas Hobbes and his theory of the state of nature, and art from artists like Vermeer. Each of the previously mentioned…

“Prisoner Dilemma” is almost like a game used by the government and police departments throughout the country to show why rational individuals might or will not cooperate, even if it would be better to do so. The situation in this case is, two suspects are arrested by the police and there is not enough evidence for a conviction, the prisoners have been separated to cut off their communication with each other. They are both going to be offered a deal, if one can testify against the other and one…

The prisoner’s dilemma reminds me the fracking dilemma. I will be using the fracking dilemma to present my argument and example. Natural gas from shale has been a very active subject in the western region. Many residents are complaining that the fracking can affect the underground water and cause earthquakes. The energy companies and government agencies are giving the people an option to have either cheaper gas or clean water. If the public decides to have cheap gas they have to let this energy…