Convention: A Philosophical Study
By David Lewis. 1986
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Citations in the corpus
- The Hanabi Challenge: A New Frontier for AI Research (2019, background): “ioned above, this combination of partial observability and cooperative rewards creates unique challenges around the learning of communication protocols and policies. Moreover, unlike signalling games [27] the communication in Hanabi does not use a separate channel, but rather mixes communication and”
- The psychology of coordination and common knowledge. (2014, background): “The problem of coordination and common knowledge has been examined by many disciplines, including political science (Ostrom, 1990), philosophy (Hume, 1739-1740/1969; Rousseau, 1754/1984; Lewis, 1969; Skyrms, 2004), economics (Chwe, 2001; Geanakoplos, 1992); linguistics (Clark, 1992, 1996; Smith, 198”
- Do Conventions Need to Be Common Knowledge? (2008, background): “In this paper, I plan to argue—contra David Lewis (Lewis 1969)—that the study of conventions is more fruitfully pursued from the foundations on which evolutive game theory is based rather than the much more demanding foundations of eductive game theory.”
- Persuasive Normative Messages: The Influence of Injunctive and Personal Norms on Using Free Plastic Bags (2013, background): “Social norms are customary rules of behavior that guide our interactions with others [14]; they are thought to be beliefs about what are common and accepted behaviors for specific situations [15].”
- ReferIt3D: Neural Listeners for Fine-Grained 3D Object Identification in Real-World Scenes (2020, background): “The basic arrangement of such games can be traced back to the language games explored by Wittgenstein [65] and Lewis [36].”
- The Electronic Mail Game: Strategic Behavior Under "Almost Common Knowledge" (1989, methodology): “Lewis, David, Convention, A Philosophical Study, Cambridge: Hanard University Press, 1969.”