TY - JOUR
AU - Nicholson, Michael
AB - Global Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2001 Divided by a Common Language: Formal and Constructivist Approaches to Games K. M. FIERKE and MICHAEL NICHOLSON Neither [rationalism nor constructivism] is adequate to cover all aspects of social reality. But at one critical point they are joined. Both recogniseÐ constructivism as a central research project and rationalism as a back- ground conditionÐ that human beings operate in a socially constructed environment, which changes over time. Hence, both analytical perspec- tives focus in one way or another on common knowledge . . . Neither project is complete without the other. Peter Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane and Stephen D. Krasner, 1998 [The two types of game theory] imply correspondingly different ``struc- tural’ ’ methodologies: the causal methods of network theory on the one hand, the constitutive methods of discourse theoretic or grammatical models on the other. The two kinds of game theory also tacitly implicate each other . . . This does not mean that conventional game theorists need to become Wittgensteinians, or vice-versa, but it does suggest some possibility for conversation. Alexander Wendt, 1999 As the quotations above suggest, the possibility of a conversation between rationalists and constructivists has become a recurring 
TI - Divided by a Common Language: Formal and Constructivist Approaches to Games
JF - Global Society
DO - 10.1080/13600820124575
DA - 2001-01-01
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SP - 7
EP - 25
VL - 15
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