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Nearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this book, J. McKenzie Alexander argues that a new defence is urgently needed because, in the deca
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95707
Autor:
J. McKenzie Alexander
It is certainly the case that morality governs the interactions that take place between individuals. But what if morality exists because of these interactions? This book, first published in 2007, argues for the claim that much of the behaviour we vie
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J. McKenzie Alexander
Evolutionary game theory originated in population biology from the realisation that frequency-dependent fitness introduced a strategic element into evolution. Since its development, evolutionary game theory has been adopted by many social scientists,
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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108582063
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108582063
Autor:
Julia Morley, J. McKenzie Alexander
Publikováno v:
Synthese. 199:7957-7980
In a highly influential work, List and Pettit (Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents, Oxford University Press, 2011) draw upon the theory of judgement aggregation to offer an argument for the existence of nonreductive
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J. Mckenzie Alexander
Publikováno v:
The Handbook of Rationality ISBN: 9780262366175
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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11252.003.0058
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11252.003.0058
Autor:
J. McKenzie Alexander
Publikováno v:
Philosophy of Science. 82:969-982
Cheap talk has often been thought incapable of supporting the emergence of cooperation because costless signals, easily faked, are unlikely to be reliable (Zahavi and Zahavi, 1997). I show how, in a social network model of cheap talk with reinforceme
Autor:
J. McKenzie Alexander
Publikováno v:
Philosophy of Science. 80:769-782
Multiarm bandit problems have been used to model the selection of competing scientific theories by boundedly rational agents. In this article, I define a variable-arm bandit problem, which allows the set of scientific theories to vary over time. I sh
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J. McKenzie Alexander
Publikováno v:
Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 90:619-640
Decision theory faces a number of problematic gambles which challenge it to say what value an ideal rational agent should assign to the gamble, and why. Yet little attention has been devoted to the question of what an ideal rational agent is, and in
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J. McKenzie Alexander
Publikováno v:
Journal of Philosophy. 109:712-727
In the course of history, many individuals have the dubious honor of being remembered primarily for an eponym of which they would disapprove. How many are aware that Joseph-Ignace Guillotin actually opposed the death penalty? Another notable case is
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J. McKenzie Alexander
Publikováno v:
Mind. 120:803-817
The Pasadena game is an example of a decision problem which lacks an expected value, as traditionally conceived. Easwaran (2008) has shown that, if we distinguish between two different kinds of expectations, which he calls ‘strong’ and ‘weak’