Brian Skyrms

Brian Skyrms (born 1938) is an American philosopher, Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and a professor of philosophy at Stanford University.

[1] Skyrms is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and one of two living philosophers (along with Allan Gibbard) to be elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

Most recently, his work has focused on the evolution of social norms using evolutionary game theory.

His two recent books Evolution of the Social Contract [2] and The Stag Hunt [3] are both on this topic.

Skymrs has shown that in the 'cake partition' game, the only evolutionarily stable strategy is demanding 50% of the cake.