Evolution and Rationality
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Evolution and Rationality

Decisions, Co-operation and Strategic Behaviour

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eBook - PDF

Evolution and Rationality

Decisions, Co-operation and Strategic Behaviour

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. EVOLUTION AND RATIONALITY
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Figures and Tables
  7. Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. CHAPTER 1: Towards a Darwinian theory of decision making: Games and the biological roots of behavior
  10. CHAPTER 2: What do humans maximize?: Claire El Mouden, Maxwell Burton-Chellew, Andy Gardner and Stuart A. West
  11. CHAPTER 3: Natural selection and rational decisions
  12. CHAPTER 4: Evolution, dynamics and rationality: The limits of ESS methodology
  13. CHAPTER 5: Are rational actor models “rational” outside small worlds?
  14. CHAPTER 6: Pull, push or both?: Indirect evolution in economics and beyond
  15. CHAPTER 7: Schelling formalized: Strategic choices of non-rational behaviour
  16. CHAPTER 8: Human cooperation and reciprocity
  17. CHAPTER 9: Team reasoning, framing and cooperation
  18. CHAPTER 10: An evolutionary perspective on the unification of the behavioral sciences
  19. CHAPTER 11: From fitness to utility
  20. Index