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CfP special issue of Erkenntnis on Game theoretical models of Communication, deadline: 31 March 2012

Call for Papers

 	GAMES AND COMMUNICATION

 	Special issue of the journal Erkenntnis

 	THEME: Game Theoretic Models of Communication

 	DESCRIPTION: What role does the assumption of rationality play in 
communication? Game Theory provides a powerful tool for investigating this 
question. If agents are assumed to be perfectly rational, classical Game 
Theory can model linguistic tasks such as pragmatic interpretation as 
equilibrium calculations. If agents are assumed to be simple learners, 
then Evolutionary Game Theory can model the emergence of apparently 
rational signaling systems. However, real language users are neither 
perfectly rational, nor as simple as the agents in evolutionary games. 
This collection aims to explore models of communicative interaction which 
lie between these extremes. We invite submissions which utilize the tools 
of Game Theory (broadly construed) in order to investigate the assumption 
of rationality (and its limits) in models of communication.

 	DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 31, 2012

 	Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2012

 	Papers prepared for blind review should be sent to 
aisaac@sas.upenn.edu [mailto:aisaac@sas.upenn.edu]

 	EDITORS:
Alistair Isaac
Department of Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania

 	Sven Lauer
Department of Linguistics
Stanford University