Modeling Rationality, Morality, and Evolution

by Peter Danielson

Overview

This collection focuses on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of recent work on rational choice and evolution. Linking questions like "Is it rational to be moral?" to the evolution of cooperation in "The Prisoners Dilemma," the book brings together new work using models from game theory, evolutionary biology, and cognitive science, as well as from philosophical analysis. Among the contributors are leading figures in these fields, including David Gauthier, Paul M. Churchland, Brian Skyrms, Ronald de Sousa, and Elliot Sober.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195125504
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/29/1998
Series:	|c NDCS |t New Directions in Cognitive Science , #7
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsContributors1. Introduction, Peter A. DanielsonRationality2. Rationality and Rules, Edward F. Mc Clennen3. Intention and Deliberation, David Gauthier4. Following Through with One's Plans: Reply to David Gauthier, Michael E. Bratman5. How Breass' Paradox Solves Newcomb's Problem, A. D. Irvine6. Economics of the Prisoner's Dilemma: A Background, Bryan R. Routledge7. Modeling Rationality: Normative or Descriptive?, Ronald de SousaModeling Social Interaction8. Theorem 1, Leslie Burkholder9. The Failure of Success: Intrafamilial Exploitation in the Prisoner's Dilemma, Louis Marinoff10. Transforming Social Dilemmas: Group Identity and Co-Operation, Peter Kollock11. Beliefs and Co-Operation, Bernardo A. Huberman and Natalie S. Glance12. The Neutral Representation of the Social World, Paul M. ChurchlandMorality13. David Schmidtz14. Categorically Rational Preferences and the Structure of Morality, Duncan MacIntosh15. Why We Need a Moral Equilibrium Theory, William J. Talbott16. Moralty's Last Chance, Chantale LaCasse and Don RossEvolution17. Mutual Aid: Darwin Meets The Logic of Decision, Brian Skyrms18. Three Differences between Deliberation and Evolution, Elliott Sober19. Evolutionary Models of Co-Operative Mechanisms: Artificial Morality and Genetic Programming, Peter A. Danielson20. Norms as Emergent Properties of Adaptive Learning: The Case of Economic Routines, Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Bassanini and Marco Valente