Self-Assembling Games
Language, Learning, and Inquiry
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 July 2026
- ISBN 9780197793541
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 198x140x30 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 34 b/w figures and graphs 700
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Short description:
The theory of self-assembling games studies how evolutionary games emerge from basic interactions, and explores how the structure of a game may evolve on its continued play. Self Assembling Games offers readers new ways of considering game-theoretic ritualization, analyzing signalling, inference, compositional language, and attention as examples of this phenomenon.
MoreLong description:
The theory of self-assembling games studies how evolutionary games emerge from basic interactions, and explores how once formed, the structure of a game may evolve on continued play. In Self Assembling Games, Jeffrey A. Barrett offers an incisive analysis of hierarchical, dialogue, and network-style games, illustrating how trial-and-error learners coevolve meaningful language and inferential capacities, how social structures that allow for more reliable learning emerge, and how learning itself develops in more sophisticated ways throughout this process.
In a philosophical exploration of self-assembling games' impact on animal and human behaviour, Barrett follows a continuous philosophical thread, providing a framework for a thoughtful pragmatic account of empirical inquiry. In demonstrating how simple agents may evolve meaningful language, useful social connections, and better ways of learning as they succeed and fail together in action, Self Assembling Games offers readers new ways of considering game-theoretic ritualization at large.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Self assembly and games
Chapter 2: Learning to signal
Chapter 3: Generalized signaling games
Chapter 4: Assembling games from decisions
Chapter 5: Rule following and template transfer
Chapter 6: Modular composition and the evolution of salience
Chapter 7: The self-assembly of computation
Chapter 8: Learning to take turns
Chapter 9: The evolution of networks
Chapter 10: The self-assembling of inquiry
Chapter 11: The ways of learning
Chapter 12: Learning how to learn
Chapter 13: Self-assembling games and explanation
