Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Giacomo Bonanno Author-Name-First: Giacomo Author-Name-Last: Bonanno Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of California Davis Title: Epistemic foundations of game theory Abstract: This is the first draft of a chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Epistemic Logic, edited by Hans van Ditmarsch, Joe Halpern, Wiebe van der Hoek and Barteld Kooi (College Publications). Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Epistemic Models of Strategic-Form Games 3. Semantic Analysis of Common Belief of Rationality 4. Syntactic Characterization of Common Belief of Rationality 5. Common Belief versus Common Knowledge 6. Probabilistic Beliefs and von Neumann- Morgenstern Payoffs 7. Dynamic Games with Perfect Information 8. The Semantics of Belief Revision 9. Common Belief of Rationality in Perfect-Information Games 10. Literature Review Length: 37 File-URL: https://repec.dss.ucdavis.edu/files/5SPPQjrfMmsZiyqrURSCMxS4/12-11.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Number: 70 Classification-JEL: C7 KeyWords: Common belief, common knowledge, rationality, strategic-form game, dynamic game, belief revision Creation-Date: 20120520 Handle: RePEc:cda:wpaper:70