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100 1 $aBrams, Steven J.
245 10 $aSuperior beings :$bif they exist, how would we know?: game-theoretic implications of omniscience, omnipotence, immortality, and incomprehensibility /$cSteven J. Brams.
260 $aNew York :$bSpringer-Verlag,$c©1983.
300 $axviii, 202 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.
505 0 $aI. Introduction -- II. The rationality of belief in a superior being -- The revelation game -- The revelation game paradox -- The knowability games -- Belief in an uncertain world -- III. Omniscience and partial omniscience -- some effects of omniscience -- Newcomb's problem -- Which principle, and is there a conflict? -- Newcomb's problem symmetricized: Prisoners' dilemma -- A solution to prisoner's dilemma -- Cooperation or noncooperation? -- Implications of mutual predictability for SB and P -- IV. The paradox of omniscience and the theory of moves -- The paradox of omniscience -- A resolution of the paradox of omniscience -- Theory of moves -- A second paradox: moves may provide no resolution -- V. Omnipotence: moving and staying power -- Moving power -- Is there a paradox of moving power? -- Theological interpretations of moving power -- Staying power -- An algorithm for determining S-power outcomes -- M-power versus S-power in the commitment game and other situations -- VI. Immorality and incomprehensibility -- Threats and immorality -- Repeated plays -- Threat power in the punishment game: When immorality is decisive in an asymmetrical game -- Deception by the superior being -- The truth game and the problem of evil -- VII. Superior beings: They may be undecidable -- Undecidability -- Arbitrariness and undecidability.
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650 6 $aDieu$xExistence.
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