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Galeazzi, Paolo ; Galeazzi, Alessandro:
The ecological rationality of decision criteria.
In: Synthese.
Vol. 198
(2021)
.
- pp. 11241-11264.
ISSN 1573-0964
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02785-y
Abstract in another language
Standard evolutionary game theory investigates the evolutionary fitness of alternative behaviors in a fixed and single decision problem. This paper instead focuses on decision criteria, rather than on simple behaviors, as the general behavioral rules under selection in the population: the evolutionary fitness of classic decision criteria for rational choice is analyzed through Monte Carlo simulations over various classes of decision problems. Overall, quantifying the uncertainty in a probabilistic way and maximizing expected utility turns out to be evolutionarily beneficial in general. Minimizing regret also finds some evolutionary justifications in our results, while maximin seems to be always disadvantaged by differential selection.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | ecological rationality; evolutionary selection; decision criteria; population games |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Department of Philosophy > Chair Philosophy I Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Department of Philosophy |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and psychology > 100 Philosophy |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2021 22:00 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2023 11:16 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/64190 |