This paper studies a new coordination game, the Language Game, of a large but finite population. The population is partitioned into two groups of identical agents. Each player shares a common two-action strategy set and interacts pairwise with everyone else. Both symmetric profiles are pareto-efficient strict equilibria, but the groups rank them differently. The profile where successful coordin...

 L. 4-5 p.9995: To be precise, in [Deshler et al., 2003, cited in the paper], the authors mention the value of 150 nm as smallest particle size measured by optical particle counters (OPC) at Laramie. However, these authors also measure condensation nuclei (radius ≤ 0.01 μm) by growing particle with sizes down to 0.01 μm in the sample stream.  L. 5-6 p.9995: “sensitive to nature of the particl...

Recent work in personal identity has emphasized the importance of various conventions, or ‘person directed practices’ in the determination of personal identity. An interesting question arises as to whether we should think that there are any entities that have, in some interesting sense, conventional identity conditions. We think that the best way to understand such work about practices and conv...