Explaining Altruism: A Simulation-Based Approach and its Limits (Practical Philosophy) - Hardcover

Arnold, Eckhart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3868380078 ISBN 13: 9783868380071

Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Employing computer simulations for the study of the evolution of altruism has been popular since Axelrod's book „The Evolution of Cooperation“. But have the myriads of simulation studies that followed in Axelrod's footsteps really increased our knowledge about the evolution of altruism or cooperation?

This book examines in detail the working mechanisms of simulation based evolutionary explanations of altruism. It shows that the „theoretical insights“ that can be derived from simulation studies are often quite arbitrary and of little use for the empirical research. In the final chapter of the book, therefore, a set of epistemological requirements for computer simulations is proposed and recommendations for the proper research design of simulation studies are made.

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Eckhart Arnold, Ph.D (philosophy), M.A. (political science) is a research assistant in the philosophy & economics program at the University of Bayreuth. He has published on various topics of philosophy and political science, including evolutionary computer simulations, political theology and intercultural ethics. Currently he is working on the link between anti-liberalism and theological conceptions of politics. He edited the ontos-Volume “Hans Kelsen: A New Science of Politics.”

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Editiones Scholasticae
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3868380078
• ISBN 13: 9783868380071
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310
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