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Is Game Theory science or philosophy?
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Re: Game Theory

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False dichotomy.
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That was text book of you, Geo!

The dilemma is actually self imposed though.
I'm not forcing you to choose one or the other.
You're certainly welcome to elaborate.


Okay - fine.

If game theory is applied to social science, does that make it science?
As a science, what's its predictive power?
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ant wrote:As a science, what's its predictive power?
There are game theoretic models for many areas, from politics to economics to biology. The models have some predictive power, but human decision making is too complex to accurately model.

Most models revolve around attaining some measure of equilibrium, and the strategies to achieve equilibrium give the model it's predictive ability.

See the Cournot duopoly for an example.
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The models have some predictive power, but human decision making is too complex to accurately model.


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