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The Moral Wager - Evolution and Contract (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
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The Moral Wager - Evolution and Contract (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 108
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In the following chapters, I offer an evolutionary account of
morality and from that extrapolate a version of contractarianism I
call consent theory. Game theory helps to highlight the evolution
of morality as a resolution of interpersonal conflicts under
strategic negotiation. It is this emphasis on strategic negotiation
that underwrites the idea of consent. Consent theory differs from
other contractarian models by abandoning reliance on rational
self-interest in favour of evolutionary adaptation. From this, more
emphasis will be placed on consent as natural convergence rather
than consent as an idealization. My picture of contractarianism,
then, ends up looking more like the relativist model offered by
Harman, rather than the rational (or pseudo-rational) model offered
by Gauthier, let alone the Kantian brands of Rawls or Scanlon. So
at least some of my discussion will dwell on why it is no loss to
abandon hope for the universal, categorical morality that rational
models promise. In the introduction, I offer the betting analogy
that underwrites the remaining picture. There are some bets where
the expected utility is positive, though the odds of winning on
this particular occasion are exceedingly low. In such cases, we
cannot hope to give an argument that taking the bet is rational.
The only thing we can say is that those predisposed to take this
kind of bet on these kinds of occasions will do better than those
with other dispositions, so long as such games occur often enough.
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