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View article: Too Much of a Good Thing? Positive Assortment and Social Dilemmas
Too Much of a Good Thing? Positive Assortment and Social Dilemmas Open
When does evolution lead to efficient outcomes in a social dilemma such as the prisoner’s dilemma or stag hunt? There is a growing consensus in the literature that correlated interaction among behavioral strategies is key. Partner choice, …
View article: Assertions: Deterrent or Handicap? A Reply to Graham (2020)
Assertions: Deterrent or Handicap? A Reply to Graham (2020) Open
According to one influential tradition, to assert that p is to express a belief that p. Yet how do assertions provide strong evidence for belief? Philosophers have recently drawn on evolutionary biology to help explain the stability of ass…
View article: PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 90 issue 5 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 90 issue 4 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 90 issue 3 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: PSA volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
PSA volume 90 issue 2 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Nash, Bargaining and Evolution
Nash, Bargaining and Evolution Open
Evolutionary accounts of morality consider behavior in rather simple scenarios. Evolutionary work on fairness focuses on the division of a windfall and, importantly, assumes that the positions of those involved are entirely symmetric. I co…
View article: No Harm Done? An Experimental Approach to the Nonidentity Problem
No Harm Done? An Experimental Approach to the Nonidentity Problem Open
Discussions of the nonidentity problem presuppose a widely shared intuition that actions or policies that change who comes into existence do not, thereby, become morally unproblematic. We hypothesize that this intuition is not generally sh…
View article: How to Beat Science and Influence People:Policy-Makers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks
How to Beat Science and Influence People:Policy-Makers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks Open
In their recent book, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway ([2010]) describe the ‘tobacco strategy’, which was used by the tobacco industry to influence policy-makers regarding the health risks of tobacco products. The strategy involved two parts,…
View article: The Emergence of Intersectional Disadvantage
The Emergence of Intersectional Disadvantage Open
Intersectionality theory explores the peculiar disadvantages that arise as the result of occupying multiple disadvantaged demographic categories. Addressing intersectionality theory through quantitative methods has proven di�fficult. Conce…
View article: No harm done? An experimental approach to the non-identity problem
No harm done? An experimental approach to the non-identity problem Open
Discussions of the non-identity problem presuppose a widely shared intuition that actions or policies that change who comes into existence don't, thereby, become morally unproblematic. We hypothesize that this intuition isn’t generally sha…
View article: How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policymakers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks
How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policymakers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks Open
In their recent book Merchants of Doubt [New York:Bloomsbury 2010], Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway describe the "tobacco strategy", which was used by the tobacco industry to influence policy makers regarding the health risks of tobacco prod…
View article: Inclusive Fitness and the Problem of Honest Communication
Inclusive Fitness and the Problem of Honest Communication Open
Inclusive fitness has been under intense scrutiny in recent years, with many critics claiming the framework leads to incorrect predictions. We consider one particularly influential heuristic for estimating inclusive fitness in the context …
View article: Responsiveness and Robustness in the David Lewis Signaling Game
Responsiveness and Robustness in the David Lewis Signaling Game Open
We consider modifications to the standard David Lewis signaling game and relax a number of unrealistic implicit assumptions that are often built into the framework. In particular, we motivate and explore various asymmetries that exist betw…
View article: The Handicap Principle Is an Artifact
The Handicap Principle Is an Artifact Open
The handicap principle is one of the most influential ideas in evolutionary biology. It asserts that when there is conflict of interest in a signaling interaction signals must be costly in order to be reliable. While in evolutionary biolog…
View article: Communication Without the Cooperative Principle: A Signaling Experiment
Communication Without the Cooperative Principle: A Signaling Experiment Open
According to Grice's `Cooperative Principle', human communicators are involved in a cooperative endeavor. The speaker attempts to make herself understood and the listener, in turn, assumes that the speaker is trying to maximize the ease an…