Master student, "Logic & Philosophy of Science", Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Germany
Dates of visit: October - December 2013
Email: m.wuertenberger@campus.lmu.de|
Project Description: My project at LSE is to conduct research in preparation for writing my master-thesis in 2014. My research interests range over theories of Rational-choice, Game-theory and Epistemology. One of my specific research interest lies in explaining cooperation taking place in games. In various games classical game-theory predicts players to defect because of the absence of institutional rules or possibility of making binding agreements. Hence cooperation is very often considered to be irrational. Putting these games into practise gives a completely different picture: in many cases people do cooperate; furthermore they are not even willing to retract their decisions once being confronted with their supposedly irrational moves. What are the ways out this dilemma?