Cover: Evolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation, from Harvard University Press Cover: Evolution, Games, and God in HARDCOVER

Evolution, Games, and God

The Principle of Cooperation

Add to Cart

Book Details

HARDCOVER

$35.00 • £25.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674047976

Publication: May 2013

Available 04/01/2013

* Academic Trade

416 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

14 halftones, 1 line illustration, 2 tables

World

Related Subjects

Share This

    • 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