Schulz, Armin (2011) Gigerenzer’s evolutionary arguments against rational choice theory: an assessment. Philosophy of Science, 78 (5). pp. 1272-1282. ISSN 0031-8248
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I critically discuss a recent innovation in the debate surrounding the plausibility of rational choice theory (RCT): the appeal to evolutionary theory. Specifically, I assess Gigerenzer and colleagues’ claim that considerations based on natural selection show that, instead of making decisions in a RCT-like way, we rely on ‘simple heuristics’. As I try to make clearer here, though, Gigerenzer and colleagues’ arguments are unconvincing: we lack the needed information about our past to determine whether the premises on which they are built are true—and, hence, we cannot tell whether they, in fact, speak against RCT.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | http://journal.philsci.org/ |
Additional Information: | © 2011 Philosophy of Science Association |
Divisions: | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2011 11:04 |
Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 23:01 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31834 |
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