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dc.contributor.author | Khalil, Elias L. | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-15 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-14T11:16:38Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-05-14T11:16:38Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31838 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Advocates of natural selection usually regard rationality as redundant, i.e., as a mere linguistic device to describe natural selection. But this "Redundancy Thesis" faces the anomaly that rationality differs from natural selection. One solution is to conceive rationality as a trait selected by the neo-Darwinian mechanism of natural selection as . But this "Rationality-qua-Trait Thesis" faces a problem as well: Following neo-Darwinism, one cannot classify one allele of, e.g., eyesight as better than another without reference to constraints - while one can classify rationality as better than irrationality irrespective of constraints. Therefore, natural selection cannot be a trait. This leads us to the only solution: Rationality is actually a method that cannot be reduced to a trait. This "Rationality-qua-Method Thesis" lays the ground for alternative, developmental views of evolution. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aMax Planck Institute of Economics |cJena | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aPapers on Economics and Evolution |x0622 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D0 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Redundancy Thesis | en |
dc.subject.keyword | rationality anomaly | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Rationality-qua-Trait Thesis | en |
dc.subject.keyword | incoherence problem | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Rationality-qua-Method | en |
dc.title | Charles Darwin meets Amoeba economicus: why natural selection cannot explain rationality | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 522547753 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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