In several recent papers Arthur Robson sketches evolutionary scenarios in order to explain why we humans evolved hard-wired utility functions and the capacity to choose flexibly on the basis of them. These scenarios are ...

Because of the intellectual attraction of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution, its concepts are often borrowed to conceptualized evolutionary change also in non-biological domains. However, a heuristic strategy like that ...

The so-called evolutionary social sciences are based on the belief that Darwinism can explain the living world and that it therefore should be able to explain other complex systems such as minds and societies. In fact, ...

Since Sidney Winter published his paper on "Knowledge and competence as Strategic assets", the number of publications on the role of knowledge in economics has immensely grown. Here we shall analyze that role from an ...

It has been suggested in the literature about actions than one can honour the philosophical intuition liying behind Davidson's argument for the Anscombe Thesis (the claim that by-sentences --sentences used to report actions ...