Description
This study is a groundbreaking application of game theory to the semiotics of culture and communication. It shows that culture and communication are not merely means of integrating social actors, but primarily ways of distinguishing individuals who interact both competitively and cooperatively within society. Provocatively using the Darwinian idea of sexual selection, the author demonstrates how game theory enhances the semiotic understanding of culture and communication.
Chapter
Part 1 Canonical games
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34 – 37
1.2 Pericles’ problems
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39 – 42
1.1History, the speeches, and the funeral oration
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39 – 39
1.3 What to praise
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42 – 46
1.4 In praise of Athenian culture
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46 – 49
1.5 The city in crisis
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49 – 53
1.6 The answer before dying
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53 – 57
2. Coordination
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57 – 65
2.1 Democracy, warfare, and the political system
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65 – 67
2.2 The contrast of nature and conventions
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67 – 72
2.3 To have a civic morality
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72 – 75
2.4 Starting with signs
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75 – 78
2.5 Exchanging signs
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78 – 81
2.6 From signs to values
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81 – 83
2.7 The political sign
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83 – 85
3.1 Thorns in Augustine
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91 – 93
3.2 The insufficiency of rhetoric
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93 – 96
3.3 The importance of wisdom and happiness
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96 – 98
3.4 The demise of the classical tradition
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98 – 101
3.5 Undoing a labyrinth of doubts
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101 – 103
3.6 Among digns
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103 – 105
3.7 Which meaning?
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105 – 108
3.8 Signs and things
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108 – 112
3.9 Knowledge and semiosis
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112 – 117
3.10 How and where to find the norms
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117 – 121
3.11 The light within the heart
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121 – 125
Part 2 Ancestral games
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125 – 133
4.1 The anthropological ideology
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135 – 135
4.2 Cultural cohesion
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135 – 138
4.3 Nature approximately
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138 – 140
4.4 Predators and prey in interaction
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140 – 145
4.5 Cooperation and conflict within species
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145 – 149
4.6 Signs displayed
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149 – 151
4.7 A natural typology of human societies
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151 – 152
4.8 Toward sex
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152 – 155
5. Sex, signals
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155 – 157
5.1 The case for individuality
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157 – 159
5.2 The case for sex
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159 – 162
5.3 Live sex
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162 – 165
5.4 The maintenance of sex; The fall of the virgin lesbians
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165 – 169
5.5 Winning without winning
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169 – 173
5.6 Choosing a mate, selecting signs
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173 – 175
5.7 Signs in a continuously drifting world
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175 – 178
5.8 Deceptive and honest signalling
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178 – 180
5.9 Why not deception everywhere?
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180 – 182
5.10 Truth without conventions
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182 – 184
Part 3 Individual games
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184 – 12
6.1 Anatomy of the game
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189 – 190
6.2 Complex utility
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190 – 193
6.3 Adding up to zero
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193 – 195
6.4 Pennies for your thoughts
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195 – 198
6.5 Ruling the game
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198 – 201
6.6 In equilibrium
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201 – 204
6.7 Cutting and choosing the slices of a magical pizza
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204 – 208
7. Players
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208 – 213
7.1 The storm blast came
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213 – 214
7.2 A ghastly crew of uncooperative players
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214 – 217
7.3 Serving time
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217 – 222
7.4 Unto others
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222 – 224
7.5 The tit-for-tat blues
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224 – 227
7.6 Someone’s gotta give
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227 – 230
7.7 It is not yellow; it is Chicken
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230 – 233
7.8 Signs of asymmetry and asymmetric players
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233 – 237
7.9 Types, tokens, and inflated signs
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237 – 241
The cause of conflict between cultures
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245 – 246
Sexualized culture
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246 – 252
The traditional fallacies of cultural semiotics
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252 – 254
The future of cultural semiotics
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254 – 258
References
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261 – 277
Communication Games
：The Semiotic Foundation of Culture
( Approaches to Applied Semiotics AAS )
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