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CALL FOR PAPERS

Games and Communication

Special issue of the journal Erkenntnis

Theme: Game Theoretic Models of Communication

Description:
What role does the assumption of rationality play in communication? \; Game Theory provides a powerful tool for investigating this question. \; If agents are assumed to be perfectly rational\, classical Game Theory can model linguistic tasks such as pragmatic interpretation as equilibrium calculations. \; If agents are assumed to be simple learners\, then Evolutionary Game Theory can model the emergence of apparently rational signaling systems. \; However\, real language users are neither perfectly rational\, nor as simple as the agents in evolutionary games. \; This collection aims to explore models of communicative interaction which lie between these extremes. \; We invite submissions which utilize the tools of Game Theory (broadly construed) in order to investigate the assumption of rationality (and its limits) in models of communication. \;

Deadline for Submissions: \; March 31\, 2012

Notification of Acceptance: May 31\, 2012

Papers prepared for blind review should be sent to aisaac@sas.upenn.edu

Editors:
Alistair Isaac
Department of Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania

Sven Lauer
Department of Linguistics
Stanford University

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