Self-Assembling Games Language, Learning, and Inquiry

The theory of self-assembling games studies how evolutionary games emerge from basic interactions, and explores how once formed, the structure of a game may evolve on continued play. In Self Assembling Games, Jeffrey A. Barrett offers an incisive analysis of hierarchical, dialogue, and network-style games, illustrating how trial-and-error learners coevolve meaningful language and inferential capacities, how social structures that allow for more reliable learning emerge, and how learning itself develops in more sophisticated ways throughout this process.

In a philosophical exploration of self-assembling games' impact on animal and human behaviour, Barrett follows a continuous philosophical thread, providing a framework for a thoughtful pragmatic account of empirical inquiry. In demonstrating how simple agents may evolve meaningful language, useful social connections, and better ways of learning as they succeed and fail together in action, Self Assembling Games offers readers new ways of considering game-theoretic ritualization at large.

Info autore

Jeffrey A. Barrett is Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. Barrett has made contributions to the philosophy of science, epistemology, game theory, and logic. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Barrett Jeffrey A., Jeffrey A Barrett
• Editore: Oxford Academic
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 24.02.2026
• Categoria: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazi
• EAN: 9780197793541
• ISBN: 978-0-19-779354-1
• Illustrazioni: 34 b/w figures and graphs
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14 x 21 x 3 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 476 g
• Categorie: PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge