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  • Hume’s 'Third Way': A Pareto Optimal Account of Convention Prokic, Uros 2021 International Journal of Applied Philosophy , Vol. 35 , Issue 2 , S. 253 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 0739-098X | 2153-6910 10.5840/ijap2022421166 Abstract

    This inquiry critically assesses previous research utilizing a game theory framework to understand Hume’s account of convention as the tangible expression of justice for the purpose of regulating possessions. In so doing, this research offers an alternative understanding of Humean convention that first clearly lays out the rules and main assumptions of the game, as presented in A Treatise of Human Nature, and then proceeds to analyze the implied optimal strategy and outcome. Rejecting commonly held views considering Humean convention in terms of the Nash equilibrium and pure contractarianism, this research offers a novel middle approach—a “Third Way” between self-interest and sympathy, between cooperation versus non-cooperation, and ultimately between contractarianism versus utilitarianism. This “Third Way”conceives of Hume’s account of convention as a cooperative game with binding threats that necessarily always rests on the Pareto optimal strategy, and seeks a resulting Pareto optimal outcome.

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    Applied Philosophy | General Interest | Social and Political Philosophy

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