Modeling Rationality, Morality, and Evolution.
These essays focus on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of rational choice and evolution. It links questions like ""is it rational to be moral?"" to the evolution of co-operation, and uses models from game theory, evolutionary biology and cogni...
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Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Vancouver studies in cognitive science.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 Introduction; RATIONALITY; 2 Rationality and Rules; 3 Intention and Deliberation; 4 Following Through with One's Plans: Reply to David Gauthier; 5 How Braess' Paradox Solves Newcomb's Problem; 6 Economics of the Prisoner's Dilemma: A Background; 7 Modeling Rationality: Normative or Descriptive?; MODELING SOCIAL INTERACTION; 8 Theorem 1; 9 The Failure of Success: Intrafamilial Exploitation in the Prisoner's Dilemma; 10 Transforming Social Dilemmas: Group Identity and Co-operation; 11 Beliefs and Co-operation.
- 12 The Neural Representation of the Social WorldMORALITY; 13 Moral Dualism; 14 Categorically Rational Preferences and the Structure of Morality; 15 Why We Need a Moral Equilibrium Theory; 16 Morality's Last Chance; EVOLUTION; 17 Mutual Aid: Darwin Meets The Logic of Decision; 18 Three Differences between Deliberation and Evolution; 19 Evolutionary Models of Co-operative Mechanisms: Artificial Morality and Genetic Programming; 20 Norms as Emergent Properties of Adaptive Learning: The Case of Economic Routines.