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41The Irrational Game: why there’s no perfect systemIn Eric Bronson (ed.), Poker and Philosophy: Pocket Rockets and Philosopher Kings, Open Court Press. pp. 105-115. 2006.This is a chapter written for a popular audience, in which I use poker as a convenient illustration of probability, determinism and counterfactuals. More originally, I also discuss the roles of rationality versus psychological hunches, and explain why even in principle game theory cannot provide us the panacea of a perfect winning srategy. (N.B. The document I have uploaded here is slightly longer than the abbreviated version that appears in the book, and also differs in a few other minor detail…Read more
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20Partial explanations in social scienceIn Harold Kincaid (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, Oxford University Press. pp. 130--153. 2012.
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381Back to the big pictureJournal of Economic Methodology 28 (1): 54-59. 2021.We distinguish between two different strategies in methodology of economics. The big picture strategy, dominant in the twentieth century, ascribed to economics a unified method and evaluated this m...
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Prediction, history and political scienceIn Harold Kincaid & Jeroen van Bouwel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science, Oxford University Press. 2023.
Robert Northcott
Birkbeck College, London
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Birkbeck College, LondonDepartment Of PhilosophyAssistant Professor