Synopses & Reviews
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
1. Introduction, Peter A. Danielson
Rationality
2. Rationality and Rules, Edward F. Mc Clennen
3. Intention and Deliberation, David Gauthier
4. Following Through with One's Plans: Reply to David Gauthier, Michael E. Bratman
5. How Breass' Paradox Solves Newcomb's Problem, A. D. Irvine
6. Economics of the Prisoner's Dilemma: A Background, Bryan R. Routledge
7. Modeling Rationality: Normative or Descriptive?, Ronald de Sousa
Modeling Social Interaction
8. Theorem 1, Leslie Burkholder
9. The Failure of Success: Intrafamilial Exploitation in the Prisoner's Dilemma, Louis Marinoff
10. Transforming Social Dilemmas: Group Identity and Co-Operation, Peter Kollock
11. Beliefs and Co-Operation, Bernardo A. Huberman and Natalie S. Glance
12. The Neutral Representation of the Social World, Paul M. Churchland
Morality
13. David Schmidtz
14. Categorically Rational Preferences and the Structure of Morality, Duncan MacIntosh
15. Why We Need a Moral Equilibrium Theory, William J. Talbott
16. Moralty's Last Chance, Chantale LaCasse and Don Ross
Evolution
17. Mutual Aid: Darwin Meets The Logic of Decision, Brian Skyrms
18. Three Differences between Deliberation and Evolution, Elliott Sober
19. Evolutionary Models of Co-Operative Mechanisms: Artificial Morality and Genetic Programming, Peter A. Danielson
20. Norms as Emergent Properties of Adaptive Learning: The Case of Economic Routines, Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Bassanini and Marco Valente