Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science
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Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science

About this book

"Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science" provides a foundational mathematical approach to the modelling of social conflict. The book illustrates how theory and evidence can be mathematically deepened and how investigations grounded in social choice theory can provide the evidence needed to inform social practice. Countering criticism from constructivist viewpoints it shows how discourse is grounded in mathematical logic and mathematical structure. The modelling of social conflict is viewed as an application of mathematical social science and relevant models are drawn from each field of mathematical psychology, mathematical sociology, mathematical political science and mathematical economics. Unique in its multidisciplinary focus the book brings together powerful mathematical conceptualisations of the social world from a wide range of separate areas of inquiry, thereby providing a strong conceptual framework and an integrated account of social situations. It is a vital resource for all researchers in peace science, peace and conflict studies, politics, international relations, mathematical modelling in the social sciences and complexity theory.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1. Introduction and overview
  8. Chapter 2. Set theory and social reality
  9. Chapter 3. Mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence and ordinary language
  10. Chapter 4. Possibility and probability: Value, conflict and choice
  11. Chapter 5. Theory, evidence and reality: The mean and median ideals of competing groups
  12. Chapter 6. Social design, ethics and the amount of value
  13. Chapter 7. Change, multiple-entity systems and complexity
  14. Chapter 8. Mathematical psychology
  15. Chapter 9. Models of individual choice
  16. Chapter 10. Mathematical sociology
  17. Chapter 11. Mathematical political science and game theory
  18. Chapter 12. The mathematical economics of social participation; complexity
  19. Chapter 13. Life and history: The speculative pursuit of value
  20. Chapter 14. World history: The growth and distribution dynamics of power, truth and value
  21. Chapter 15. Debating the mathematical science approach to international relations
  22. References