Lecture 05

Date given: Wednesday, 5th November 2025

Handout for all of Lecture 05 as pdf. (This has the same content as the web version you are reading here.)

Essay Question

This lecture is relevant for answering the following question:

• long essay question 10, What is team reasoning? Why, if at all, must an account of joint action invoke team reasoning?

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• Game Theory Introduction
• Nash Equilibrium
• Applications and Limits of Game Theory
• What Is Team Reasoning?
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Index of Games