Evolution, Games, and God
The Principle of Cooperation
1st Edition
Published on 7. May 2013
415 pages
978-0-674-07549-8 (ISBN)
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Evolution, Games, and God explores how cooperation and altruism, alongside mutation and natural selection, play a critical role in evolution, from microbes to human societies. Inheriting a tendency to cooperate and self-sacrifice on behalf of others may be as beneficial to a population’,s survival as the self-preserving instincts of individuals.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Why Cooperation Makes a Difference - Sarah Coakley and Martin A. Nowak
- I. Evolutionary Cooperation in Historical Perspective
- 1. "Ready to Aid One Another" Darwin on Nature, God, and Cooperation - John Hedley Brooke
- 2. Altruism Morals from History - Thomas Dixon
- 3. Evolution and "Cooperation" in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century America Science, Theology, and the Social Gospel - Heather D. Curtis
- II. Mathematics, Game Theory, and Evolutionary Biology: The Evolutionary Phenomenon of Cooperation
- 4. Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation - Martin A. Nowak
- 5. Mathematical Models of Cooperation - Christoph Hauert
- 6. Economics and Evolution Complementary Perspectives on Cooperation - Johan Almenberg and Anna Dreber
- III. Psychology, Neuroscience, and Intentionality in the Cultural Evolution of Cooperation
- 7. Social Prosthetic Systems and Human Motivation One Reason Why Cooperation Is Fundamentally Human - Stephen M. Kosslyn
- 8. The Uniqueness of Human Cooperation Cognition, Cooperation, and Religion - Dominic D. P. Johnson
- 9. Self-Denial and Its Discontents Toward Clarification of the Intrapersonal Conflict between "Selfishness" and "Altruism" - Maurice Lee
- IV. Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Mind: Adjudicating the Significance of Evolutionary Cooperation
- 10. Unpredicted Outcomes in the Games of Life - Jeffrey P. Schloss
- 11. What Can Game Theory Tell Us about Humans? - Justin C. Fisher
- 12. How Not to Fight about Cooperation - Ned Hall
- V. Cooperation, Ethics, and Metaethics
- 13. The Moral Organ A Prophylaxis against the Whims of Culture - Marc D. Hauser
- 14. A New Case for Kantianism Evolution, Cooperation, and Deontological Claims in Human Society - Friedrich Lohmann
- 15. Nature, Normative Grammars, and Moral Judgments - Jean Porter
- 16. The Christian Love Ethic and Evolutionary "Cooperation" The Lessons and Limits of Eudaimonism and Game Theory - Timothy P. Jackson
- VI. Cooperation, Metaphysics, and God
- 17. Altruism, Normalcy, and God - Alexander Pruss
- 18. Evolution, Altruism, and God Why the Levels of Emergent Complexity Matter - Philip Clayton
- 19. The Problem of Evil and Cooperation - Michael Rota
- 20. Evolution, Cooperation, and Divine Providence - Sarah Coakley
- List of Contributors
- Index
