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Brian Skyrms, the Glossary

Brian Skyrms (born 1938) is an American philosopher, Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and a professor of philosophy at Stanford University.^[1]

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Lakatos Award winners
Philosophers of probability
Stanford University Department of Philosophy faculty

Allan Gibbard

Allan Fletcher Gibbard (born 1942) is the Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Brian Skyrms and Allan Gibbard are 20th-century American philosophers, 21st-century American philosophers, American game theorists, American philosophers of language and American philosophers of social science.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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Decision theory

Decision theory (or the theory of choice) is a branch of applied probability theory and analytic philosophy concerned with the theory of making decisions based on assigning probabilities to various factors and assigning numerical consequences to the outcome.

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Evolutionarily stable strategy

An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a strategy (or set of strategies) that is impermeable when adopted by a population in adaptation to a specific environment, that is to say it cannot be displaced by an alternative strategy (or set of strategies) which may be novel or initially rare.

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Evolutionary game theory

Evolutionary game theory (EGT) is the application of game theory to evolving populations in biology.

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Game theory

Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions.

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JSTOR

JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994.

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Lehigh University

Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.

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Logic

Logic is the study of correct reasoning.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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Persi Diaconis

Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. Brian Skyrms and Persi Diaconis are American probability theorists.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Philosophy of biology

The philosophy of biology is a subfield of philosophy of science, which deals with epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues in the biological and biomedical sciences.

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Philosophy of language

In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world.

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Philosophy of science

Philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science.

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Philosophy in this sense means how social science integrates with other related scientific disciplines, which implies a rigorous, systematic endeavor to build and organize knowledge relevant to the interaction between individual people and their wider social involvement.

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Political philosophy

Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them.

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Probability

Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur.

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Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Skyrms

Also known as Skyrms, Brian.

Brian Skyrms, the Glossary

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