INTERACTIVE EPISTEMOLOGY

Robert J Aumann has received numerous prizes, including the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for 2005.

With his 1976 paper, 'Agreeing to Disagree', Robert Aumann pioneered the subject of interactive epistemology: the study of what people know, and what they know about what others know. Since then, the discipline has burgeoned enormously. This book documents Aumann's work leading to the 1976 paper and his subsequent contributions to the discipline. The scientific controversies emanating from his work are also included.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Interviewed with Robert Aumann
• 'Pure' Interactive Epistemology
  • Agreeing to Disagree
  • Interactive Epistemology I: Knowledge
  • Interactive Epistemology II: Probability
  • Incomplete Information (Robert J Aumann and Aviad Heifetz)
  • Musings on Information and Knowledge
• Interactive Epistemology and Game Equilibrium:
  • Subjectivity and Correlation in Randomized Strategies
  • Correlated Equilibrium as an Expression of Bayesian Rationality
  • Rational Expectations in Games (Robert J Aumann and Jacques H Dreze)
  • Epistemic Conditions for Nash Equilibrium (Robert J Aumann and Adam Brandenburger)
• Interactive Epistemology and Backward Induction:
  • Backward Induction and Common Knowledge of Rationality
  • The Logic of Backward Induction (Itai Arieli and Robert J Aumann)
  • On the Centipede Game
  • Irrationality in Game Theory
• Comments and Replies:
  • A Note on Backward Induction (Ken Binmore)
  • Reply to Binmore
  • Rationalizing Backward Induction? (Ken Binmore and Larry Samuelson)
  • Reply to Binmore and Samuelson
  • Rationality and Comprehension (Avishai Margalit and Menahem Yaari)
  • Reply to Margalit and Yaari
  • A Comment on Aumann's Bayesian View (Faruk Gul)
  • Common Priors: A Reply to Gul
• Subject Index
• Name Index

Readership: Senior year undergraduate, post-graduate and research degree students in economics, business economics, policy studies, political science, development studies, philosophy and social sciences. Researchers, analysts, think tanks, international economic organizations, political parties, policy decision makers, business strategists, chamber of commerce, foreign ministries, investors and bankers.