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D-Index
49
Citations
14892
World Ranking
2877
National Ranking
1398

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1987 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Brian Skyrms is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields including Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence. Their work primarily addresses topics such as Game Theory and Applications, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Language and Cultural Evolution, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence.

Skyrms has contributed extensively to academic literature, with frequent publications in journals such as:

  • Philosophy of Science
  • The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • Noûs
  • Homo Oeconomicus
  • Synthese

Their recent papers include:

  • "On the Evolution of Compositional Language," 2020, Philosophy of Science
  • "Invention and Evolution of Correlated Conventions," 2021, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • "Learning in Crawford-Sobel Signalling Games," 2025, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • "PSA volume 88 issue 5 Cover and Front matter," 2021, Philosophy of Science
  • "PSA volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Front matter," 2023, Philosophy of Science

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Skyrms' research. Frequent coauthors include Kevin Elliott, Alan C. Love, Angela Potochnik, Katie Steele, and James Owen Weatherall.

Their contributions also extend to book publications. One notable book published by Oxford University Press is The Pursuit of Happiness (2020).

Skyrms has been recognized by several prestigious organizations, having been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1999, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1987.

Best Publications

  • Evolution of the social contract

    Brian Skyrms

  • The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure

    Brian Skyrms

  • Causal necessity: A pragmatic investigation of the necessity of laws

    Brian Skyrms

  • Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Information

    Brian Skyrms

  • Evolution of the Social Contract

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  • A Dynamic Model of Social Network Formation

    Brian Skyrms;Robin Pemantle

  • Choice and chance : an introduction to inductive logic

    Brian Skyrms

  • The dynamics of rational deliberation

    Brian Skyrms

  • Evolutionary dynamics of collective action in N-person stag hunt dilemmas

    Jorge M Pacheco;Francisco C Santos;Max O Souza;Brian Skyrms

  • Pragmatics and empiricism

    Brian Skyrms

  • The Stag Hunt

    Brian Skyrms

  • Causation in decision, belief change, and statistics

    William L. Harper;Brian Skyrms

  • Higher‐Order Degrees of Belief

    Brian Skyrms

  • Dynamic coherence and probability kinematics

    Brian Skyrms

  • Causal decision theory

    Brian Skyrms

  • Presidential Address: Signals

    Brian Skyrms

  • Learning to signal: Analysis of a micro-level reinforcement model

    Raffaele Argiento;Robin Pemantle;Brian Skyrms;Stanislav Volkov

  • Resiliency, Propensities, and Causal Necessity

    Brian Skyrms

  • Darwin Meets the Logic of Decision: Correlation in Evolutionary Game Theory

    Brian Skyrms

  • Bargaining with neighbors: is justice contagious?

    Jason Alexander;Brian Skyrms

  • Science and Subjectivity

    Brian Skyrms;Israel Scheffler

  • Causation, chance, and credence

    Brian Skyrms;William L. Harper

  • Knowledge, Belief, and Counterfactual Reasoning in Games

    Cristina Bicchieri;Richard Jeffrey;Brian Skyrms

Frequent Co-Authors

Cristina Bicchieri
Cristina Bicchieri University of Pennsylvania
Elliott Sober
Elliott Sober University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen San Francisco State University
Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Stathis Psillos
Stathis Psillos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Robyn M. Dawes
Robyn M. Dawes Carnegie Mellon University
David Faust
David Faust University of Rhode Island
Patrick Suppes
Patrick Suppes Stanford University
Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher Columbia University
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala University of California, Irvine

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