Liberal Arts for Advanced Students III

Liberal Arts for Advanced Students III (LAAS III)

This course will introduces students basics of game theory and theories of justice.

Along with LAAS I, and LAAS II, this course is intended primarily for JEA students, and will be offered in English.
Interested students from other departments are also welcome.

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In the first part we will study basics of game theory. Tentative topics are as follows: 1) von Neumann-Morgenstern utility theory 2) Strategic form games (Strict dominance equilibrium and Nash equilibrium) 3) Public goods as an application of Nash equilibrium 4) Strategic from games (two-player zero sum games and Maxmin theorem) 5) Games on the unit square and Mixed extension. In the second part we will study basics as to theories of justice. Tentative topics are as follows: 1) Utilitarianism This lecture provides basic knowledge about the utilitarian conceptions of justice. 2) Contractualism This lecture outlines contemporary contractualist arguments, especially on the argument of Rawls's theory of justice. 3) Contractarianism This lecture outlines more Hobbesian contractarian arguments, especially on the argument of Gauthier's consent-based theory of justice. 4) Humeanism 1: natural justice This lectures provides a survey of attempts to naturalize justice in light of the conceptual framework of Humean philosophy. 5) Humeanism 2: justice as convention This lecture focuses on the novel approach to justice on the basis of "conflictual coordination" games by Vanderschraaf. *You may have an image of what the second part of this course is developed if you have a look at the following SEP entry: https://plato.stanford.edu/*****