In a Weakly Dominated Strategy Is Strength: Evolution of Optimality in Stag Hunt Augmented with a Punishment Option.

I explore the evolution of strategies in an Augmented Stag Hunt game that adds a punishing strategy to the ordinary Stag Hunt strategies of cooperating, which aims for optimality, and defecting, which "plays it safe." Cooperating weakly dominates punishing and defecting is the unique evolutionarily...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 83; no. 1; pp. 29 - 60
Main Author:	Vanderschraaf, Peter
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Jan2016
Subjects:	Optimality theory (Linguistics) Philosophy of punishment Coordinate constructions (Linguistics) Social science research Public goods
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