Evolution and Rationality (eBook, PDF)

Decisions, Co-operation and Strategic Behaviour
Redaktion: Okasha, Samir

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores from multiple perspectives the subtle and interesting relationship between the theory of rational choice and Darwinian evolution. In rational choice theory, agents are assumed to make choices that maximize their utility; in evolution, natural selection 'chooses' between phenotypes according to the criterion of fitness maximization. So there is a parallel between utility in rational choice theory and fitness in Darwinian theory. This conceptual link between fitness and utility is mirrored by the interesting parallels between formal models of evolution and rational choice. The essays in this volume, by leading philosophers, economists, biologists and psychologists, explore the connection between evolution and rational choice in a number of different contexts, including choice under uncertainty, strategic decision making and pro-social behaviour. They will be of interest to students and researchers in philosophy of science, evolutionary biology, economics and psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139512206
• Artikelnr.: 38447324

Inhaltsangabe

Editors introduction; 1. Towards a Darwinian theory of strategic
decision-making: games and the biological roots of behaviour Peter
Hammerstein; 2. What do humans maximize? Claire El Mouden, Maxwell
Burton-Chellew, Andy Gardner and Stuart West; 3. Natural selection and
rational decisions Alasdair Houston; 4. Evolution, dynamics and
rationality: the limits of ESS methodology Simon Huttegger and Kevin
Zollman; 5. Are rational actor models 'rational' outside small worlds?
Henry Brighton and Gerd Gigerenzer; 6. Pull, push or both? Indirect
evolution in economics and beyond Siegfried Berninghaus, Werner Güth and
Hartmut Kliemt; 7. Schelling formalized: strategic choices of non-rational
behaviour David H. Wolpert and Julian Jamison; 8. Human cooperation and
reciprocity Jack Vromen; 9. Team reasoning, framing and cooperation Natalie
Gold; 10. An evolutionary perspective on the unification of the behavioural
sciences Herbert Gintis; 11. From fitness to utility Kim Sterelny.