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Games and Social Reality
In this chapter, I will show that social activities can be seen as activities in games. In Section 2, rested on a formal framework called Dynamic Belief-Desire-Obligation Logic, I propose a model of agents who can play games. In Section 3, based on this framework, a rule system of a game is interpreted as a normative system that determines the obligation space and the permission space of each player. In a game stage, each player fulfills her obligations and chooses an action type from their permission space and performs it. These actions change the state of the game and determine new obligation and permission spaces of all participating players. In Section 4, I interpret social actions as actions based on normative systems. Social normative systems determine obligation and permission spaces of members of a social organization and restrict their activities. In Appendix, formal systems mentioned in this chapter are described in detail.
Part of the book: Game Theory