Cailin O'Connor (University of California, Irvine) will speak at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Friday, 9 September at 4-5:30pm The Emergence of Bargaining Inequity If you ask someone to divide a pie between two imaginary recipients, they are likely to recommend a 50/50 split. Philosophers like Brian Skyrms and Jason Alexander have employed evolutionary game theory to explain why such 'fair' divisions are almost universally observed in experimental work, and to explain the ubiquity of stated norms of fairness in human societies. When one moves away from an idealized lab setting, however, resource division is rarely governed by these stated norms. In particular, distributive injustice seems to be the rule for many interactions between those in different social categories - men and women, for example, or white people and people of color. In this talk, I use evolutionary game theory to show why unequal patterns of division often emerge between social groups, and to clarify the conditions under which previous results in philosophy on the emergence of fairness should be expected to hold. Seminar Location: Seminar Room 2 Department of the History and Philosophy of Science Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RH Following the talk we will go to the pub. All are welcome! ...brought to you by HPS-discussion. To subscribe or to be removed please send mail to [email protected]. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
