Convention: A Philosophical Study

By Richard E. Grandy. 1977

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Learning Cooperative Visual Dialog Agents with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2017, background): “More formally, it is a generalization of the Lewis Signaling (LS) [20] game, widely studied in economics and game theory.”
Emergent Communication through Negotiation (2018, background): “…on this subject has mainly studied the emergence of communication in cooperative games like referential games, variants of the Lewis signaling game (Lewis, 1969), where messages are used to disambiguate between different possible referents (Goldman et al., 2007; Lazaridou et al., 2016; Evtimova et…”
Beyond Question-Answering. (1981, background): “A related notion was first introduced by Lewis [36] and Schiffer [5l].”
Adversarial Language Games for Advanced Natural Language Intelligence (2019, background): “Such context-related interactions are believed to play a central role in natural language mastery in the theory of both linguistics (Mey and Xu, 2001) and philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, 1953; Lewis, 2008).”
Emergence of Norms through Social Learning (2007, background): ““Everyone conforms, everyone expects others to conform, and everyone has good reason to conform because conforming is in each person’s best interest when everyone else plans to conform” [Lewis, 1969]1.”
The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure (2003, background): “It is a special case of Duncan Luce’s (1959) gamma model of learning.”
Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling (2014, background): “In his classic study, Lewis (1969) analyzes convention as a type of game-theoretic co-ordination problem: Two or more agents have a choice of behaviors, and coordinating those behaviors leads to mutual beneﬁt.”
ARTICLES: Studying Cognition in Flux: A Historical Treatment of Fu in the Shifting Structure of Oksapmin Mathematics (2005, background): “collective practices, like those brought about by shifts toward a differentiated money economy, lead to the emergence of new coordination problems in activity (see Clark, 1996; Lewis, 1969), problems for which prior communicative approaches may be ill suited.”
Schelling points on 3D surface meshes (2012, methodology): “A decade later, Lewis used Schelling’s ideas to introduce the term “salience,” which he defined, first, as the property of an outcome of “standing out from the rest by its uniqueness in some conspicuous respect” and, second, as “being unique in some way everyone will notice, expect the others to not”
Symbolic Behaviour in Artificial Intelligence (2021, background): “Symbol use constitutes a subclass of behaviours that leverage the knowledge that symbol meaning is purely conventional [20], and that symbol meaning can, and should, be invented and continuously adapted.”
The Diversity Of Modern Capitalism (2003, background): “For instance, Aoki (2001) considers that a law cannot be a relevant institution INSTITUTIONS, COMPLEMENTARITY, AND HIERARCHY 33 11 For North, the new rules are negotiated in a ‘political market’.”
Meaning = Life (+ Culture): An outline of a unified biocultural theory of meaning (2001, background): “Since what is central to these latter categories is that they are based on shared, (implicitly) agreed-upon meaning, I will most often refer to them collectively with the term conventions (Lewis, 1969; Clark, 1996).”
Normology: Integrating insights about social norms to understand cultural dynamics (2015, background): “Americans walking on the right side of a hallway) can be understood as rational equilibria in coordination games (Lewis, 1969).”