TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arnold,Eckhart
TI  - Explaining Altruism: A Simulation-Based Approach and its Limits 
T2  - Practical Philosophy ,
SN  - 9783110327304
AV  - BJ1474 .A76 2008eb
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Altruism
KW  - Computer simulation
KW  - Cooperativeness
KW  - Ethik
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Chapter 1: Introduction --; Chapter 2: The riddle of altruism --; Chapter 3: The generalized theory of evolution as theoretical framework --; Chapter 4: Modeling the evolution of altruism --; Chapter 5: Empirical research on the evolution of altruism --; Chapter 6: Learning from failure --; Chapter 7: Summary and final reflections --; Chapter 8: Appendices --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Employing computer simulations for the study of the evolution of altruism has been popular since Axelrod's book „The Evolution of Cooperation“. But have the myriads of simulation studies that followed in Axelrod's footsteps really increased our knowledge about the evolution of altruism or cooperation? This book examines in detail the working mechanisms of simulation based evolutionary explanations of altruism. It shows that the „theoretical insights“ that can be derived from simulation studies are often quite arbitrary and of little use for the empirical research. In the final chapter of the book, therefore, a set of epistemological requirements for computer simulations is proposed and recommendations for the proper research design of simulation studies are made
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110327571
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110327571
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