Rational Agency in Evolutionary Perspective

Date

2010

Authors

Jeffares, Ben
Sterelny, Kim

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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

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Description

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Keywords: Decision theorists, treating human acts as rational bets; Decision theory, applied empirically in 'rational actor' models in social sciences; Economist's Homo economicus version of rational agency - taking humans to be rational decision-makers; Homo econo

Citation

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/27459

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ANU Research Publications

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Book chapter

Book Title

A companion to the philosophy of action

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DOI

10.1002/9781444323528.ch47

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