Article ID: CBB001718807

Deception as cooperation (2019)

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I develop a rate-distortion analysis of signaling games with imperfect common interest. Sender and receiver should be seen as jointly managing a communication channel with the objective of minimizing two independent distortion measures. I use this analysis to identify a problem with ‘functional’ theories of deception, and in particular Brian Skyrms's: there are perfectly cooperative, non-exploitative instances of channel management that come out as manipulative and deceptive according to those theories.

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Authors & Contributors
Erickson, Paul A.
Chapuisat, Michel
Clavien, Christine
Peterson, Martin
Leonard, Robert
Weirich, Paul
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
British Journal for the History of Mathematics
History of Political Economy
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
University of Chicago Press
Princeton University Press
Elsevier Science
Concepts
Game theory
Social sciences
Economics
Behavioral sciences
Mathematics
Philosophy
People
Von Neumann, John
Morgenstern, Oskar
König, Dénes
Zermelo, Ernst
Nash, John
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Institutions
Ford Foundation
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