Evolution, games, and God : the principle of cooperation / edited by Martin A. Nowak, Sarah Coakley. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xii, 400 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Why cooperation makes a difference / "Ready to aid one another" : Darwin on nature, God, and cooperation / Altruism : morals from history / Evolution and "cooperation" in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America : science, theology, and the social gospel / Five rules for the evolution of cooperation / Mathematical models of cooperation / Economics and evolution : complementary perspectives on cooperation / Social prosthetic systems and human motivation : one reason why cooperation is fundamentally human / The uniqueness of human cooperation : cognition, cooperation, and religion / Self-denial and its discontents : toward clarification of the intrapersonal conflict between "selfishnes" and "altruism" / Unpredicted outcomes in the games of life / What can game theory tell us about humans? / How not to fight about cooperation / The moral organ : a prophylaxis against the whims of culture / A new case for Kantianism : evolution, cooperation, and deontological claims in human society / Nature, normative grammars, and moral judgments / The Christian love ethic and evolutionary "cooperation" : the lessons and limits of Eudaimonism and game theory / Altruism, normalcy, and God / Evolution, altruism, and God : why the levels of emergent complexity matter / The problem of evil and cooperation / Evolution, cooperation, and divine providence / Sarah Coakley and Martin A. Nowak -- John Hedley Brooke -- Thomas Dixon -- Heather D. Curtis -- Martin A. Nowak -- Christoph Hauert -- Johan Almenberg and Anna Dreber -- Stephen M. Kosslyn -- Dominic D.P. Johnson -- Maurice Lee -- Jeffrey P. Scholss -- Justin C. Fisher -- Ned Hall -- Marc D. Hauser -- Friedrich Lohmann -- Jean Porter -- Timothy P. Jackson -- Alexander Pruss -- Philip Clayton -- Michael Rota -- Sarah Coakley.



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Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology)--Social aspects.
Cooperation.
Self-sacrifice.
Altruism.


Electronic Books.

QH360 / .E965 2013