Discourses on Social Software
Published on 1. October 2025
248 pages
978-1-040-79105-9 (ISBN)
Description
Can computer scientists contribute to the solution of societal problems? Can logic help to model social interactions? Are there recipes for making groups with diverging preferences arrive at reasonable decisions? Why is common knowledge important for social interaction? Does the rational pursuit of individual interests put the public interest in danger, and if so, why? Discourses on Social Software sheds light on these and similar questions. This book offers the reader an ideal introduction to the exciting new field of social software. It shows in detail the many ways in which the seemingly abstract sciences of logic and computer science can be put to use to analyse and solve contemporary social problems.The unusual format of a series of discussions among a logician, a computer scientist, a philosopher and some researchers from other disciplines encourages the reader to develop his own point of view. The only requirements for reading this book are a nodding familiarity with logic, a curious mind, and a taste for spicy debate.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
6,31 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-79105-9 (9781040791059)
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Jan Van Eijck | Rineke Verbrugge
Discourses on Social Software
Book
03/2009
Amsterdam University Press
€62.50
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Persons
Edited by Jan Van Eijck, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Rineke Verbrugge, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Content
Preface, List of Authors, 1 Chapter 1: Introductory Conversation, Chapter 2: Replies to Angry, Prag and Star, Chapter 3: What is Social Software?, Chapter 4: A Guest Lecture on Social Software, Chapter 5: Social Software and the Social Sciences, Chapter 6: On Social Choice Theory, Chapter 7: Ends and Means, Values and Virtues, Chapter 8: Common Knowledge and Common Belief, Chapter 9: Game Theory, Logic and Rational Choice, Chapter 10: What is Protocol Analysis?, Chapter 11: Dynamic Epistemic Logic for Protocol Analysis, Chapter 12: Battle of the Logics, Chapter 13: Eating from the Tree of Ignorance, Chapter 14: On Collective Rational Action, Chapter 15: Social Software and the Ills of Society, Bibliography, Index
