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Philosophy for Young Minds

Philosophy for Young Minds. How Should We Cooperate?. Prisoner’s Dilemma Game. Imagine that while traveling in another country with a friend, you are picked up by police and charged with a crime

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Philosophy for Young Minds

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  1. Philosophy for Young Minds How Should We Cooperate?

  2. Prisoner’s Dilemma Game • Imagine that while traveling in another country with a friend, you are picked up by police and charged with a crime • The police separate you from your friend and offer you a deal (your friend is offered the same deal) • Either: • Admit to the crime and receive a lesser punishment • Deny that you had anything to do with it and receive a more severe punishment if your friend admits to it

  3. Options and Consequences

  4. How to Play the Game • Divide up into groups of 3 • Decide which person will play which role: • Recorder • Prisoner 1 • Prisoner 2 • For each round, • Prisoner 1 chooses to either betray friend for a lesser sentence or cooperate with friend • Recorder tallies the points for each • After 10 rounds, recorder totals the points

  5. Who Won? • After the recorder tallies the points • Each prisoner tally the number of times that they cooperated • Is there a correlation between who earned the most points and who cooperated the most?

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