Arbeitspapier
Charles Darwin meets Amoeba economicus: why natural selection cannot explain rationality
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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Papers on Economics and Evolution ; No. 0622
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Redundancy Thesis
rationality anomaly
Rationality-qua-Trait Thesis
incoherence problem
Rationality-qua-Method
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Khalil, Elias L.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Max Planck Institute of Economics
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Jena
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2006
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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- Arbeitspapier
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- Khalil, Elias L.
- Max Planck Institute of Economics
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- 2006
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