Book Details

The Moral Wager

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-1-4020-5855-4

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This book illuminates and sharpens moral theory, by analyzing the evolutionary dynamics of interpersonal relations in a variety of games. We discover that successful players in evolutionary games operate as if following this piece of normative advice: Don't do unto others without their consent.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Contractarianism, Evolution, Evolutionary ethics, Game theory, Instrumentalism, Irrealism, morality