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Modeling rationality, morality, and evolution /

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 toget...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:Vancouver studies in cognitive science ; v. 7.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 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?; 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 World; 13 Moral Dualism
  • 14 Categorically Rational Preferences and the Structure of Morality15 Why We Need a Moral Equilibrium Theory; 16 Morality's Last Chance; 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