ETHICS AND GAME THEORY: THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA.

The article presents information on game theory, prisoner's dilemma, and some recent discussions of the dilemma by some of those who take a "moral point of view." The term "game theory" is generally used to refer to a branch of mathematics dealing with decision-making processes through attempting to simulate mathematically a situation of decision-making so as to discover the most rational decision. The Prisoner's Dilemma is a 2-person, non-zero-sum, non-cooperative game first devised by mathematician A.W. Tucker in the early 1950's.