Showing posts with label Political Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political Theory. Show all posts

YourMorals.Org

Monday, November 19, 2018

Collaboration among social psychologists who study morality and politics. Goal is to create a site that allows to test a variety of theories about moral psychology. One of our main goals is to foster understanding across the political spectrum.  

Current studies and questionnaires...


https://www.yourmorals.org/index.php

Allen Sens and IR theories

Saturday, April 1, 2017

resource for International relations theories: short videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/allensens/videos

Ethics sourcepage

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Thanks to James Grindeland for compiling a bunch of material and making a great Intro to Ethics site. Lots from James Rachels and Stuart Rachels here...

http://ethicsintroduction.weebly.com/


Game Theory- John Nash RIP

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Famed ‘A Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash, wife killed in taxi crash


Explaining a Cornerstone of Game Theory: John Nash’s Equilibrium


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/25/science/explaining-a-cornerstone-of-game-theory-john-nashs-equilibrium.html

John F. Nash Jr. was best known for advances in game theory, which is essentially the study of how to come up with a winning strategy in the game of life — especially when you do not know what your competitors are doing and the choices do not always look promising.

The film “A Beautiful Mind,” based on Dr. Nash’s life, tries to explain game theory in a scene in which Russell Crowe, playing Dr. Nash, is at a bar with three friends, and they are all enraptured by a beautiful blond woman who walks in with four brunette friends...

Dr. Nash did not invent game theory; the mathematician John von Neumann did the pioneering work to establish the field in the first half of the 20th century. But Dr. Nash extended the analysis beyond zero-sum, I-win-you-lose types of games to more complex situations in which all of the players could gain, or all could lose....

I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another. - Socrates, Memorabilia
 
 
 
What we maintain is that in none of the problems of life can men afford to lose sight of the storehouse bequeathed to them by the ancients. In the complexus of everything which differentiates man from the brute creation, the voice of antiquity must be heard...

-H. Browne, quoted in "Classics and Citizenship" The Classical Quarterly, 1920