Ashton T. SperryRonin Institute · Department of Philosophy
Ashton T. Sperry
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
I'm a Ph.D. in Philosophy who specializes in artificial intelligence, decision and game theory, and the philosophy of science. My current research is on the application of machine and deep learning to belief-revision in game theory, the explanatory power of equilibrium models, and how agent-based models capture the complexity of economic behavior.
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Equilibrium explanations use an equilibrium to represent and explain a system’s dynamic behavior. They provide a system with the property of global stability: a system will converge towards and remain in equilibrium regardless of its initial conditions and dynamic process. Thus, equilibrium explanations are generally treated as non-causal explanati...
Strategy is formally defined as a complete plan of action for every contingency in a game. Ideal agents can evaluate every contingency. But real people cannot do so, and require a belief-revision policy to guide their choices in unforeseen contingencies. The objects of belief-revision policies are beliefs, not strategies and acts. Thus, the rationa...
Normative game theory unsatisfactorily explains rational behavior. Real people do not behave as predicted, and what is prescribed as rational behavior is normally unattainable in real-life. The problem is that current normative analysis does not account for people's cognitive limitations – their bounded rationality. However, this paper develops an...
