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- catalog contributor b1268903.
- catalog created "c1983.".
- catalog date "1983".
- catalog date "c1983.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1983.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [187]-191.".
- catalog description "I. Introduction -- II. The rationality of belief in a superior being -- The revelation game -- The revelation game paradox -- The knowability games -- Belief in an uncertain world -- III. Omniscience and partial omniscience -- some effects of omniscience -- Newcomb's problem -- Which principle, and is there a conflict? -- Newcomb's problem symmetricized: Prisoners' dilemma -- A solution to prisoner's dilemma -- Cooperation or noncooperation? -- Implications of mutual predictability for SB and P -- IV. The paradox of omniscience and the theory of moves -- The paradox of omniscience -- A resolution of the paradox of omniscience -- Theory of moves -- A second paradox: moves may provide no resolution -- V. Omnipotence: moving and staying power -- Moving power -- Is there a paradox of moving power? -- Theological interpretations of moving power -- Staying power -- An algorithm for determining S-power outcomes -- M-power versus S-power in the commitment game and other situations -- VI. Immorality and incomprehensibility -- Threats and immorality -- Repeated plays -- Threat power in the punishment game: When immorality is decisive in an asymmetrical game -- Deception by the superior being -- The truth game and the problem of evil -- VII. Superior beings: They may be undecidable -- Undecidability -- Arbitrariness and undecidability.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 202 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Superior beings.".
- catalog identifier "0387908773 (soft)".
- catalog identifier "0387912231".
- catalog isFormatOf "Superior beings.".
- catalog issued "1983".
- catalog issued "c1983.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Springer-Verlag,".
- catalog relation "Superior beings.".
- catalog subject "BT130 .B69 1983".
- catalog subject "Game theory.".
- catalog subject "God (Christianity) Attributes.".
- catalog subject "God Attributes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Introduction -- II. The rationality of belief in a superior being -- The revelation game -- The revelation game paradox -- The knowability games -- Belief in an uncertain world -- III. Omniscience and partial omniscience -- some effects of omniscience -- Newcomb's problem -- Which principle, and is there a conflict? -- Newcomb's problem symmetricized: Prisoners' dilemma -- A solution to prisoner's dilemma -- Cooperation or noncooperation? -- Implications of mutual predictability for SB and P -- IV. The paradox of omniscience and the theory of moves -- The paradox of omniscience -- A resolution of the paradox of omniscience -- Theory of moves -- A second paradox: moves may provide no resolution -- V. Omnipotence: moving and staying power -- Moving power -- Is there a paradox of moving power? -- Theological interpretations of moving power -- Staying power -- An algorithm for determining S-power outcomes -- M-power versus S-power in the commitment game and other situations -- VI. Immorality and incomprehensibility -- Threats and immorality -- Repeated plays -- Threat power in the punishment game: When immorality is decisive in an asymmetrical game -- Deception by the superior being -- The truth game and the problem of evil -- VII. Superior beings: They may be undecidable -- Undecidability -- Arbitrariness and undecidability.".
- catalog title "Superior beings : if they exist, how would we know?: game-theoretic implications of omniscience, omnipotence, immortality, and incomprehensibility / Steven J. Brams.".
- catalog type "text".