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Article Dans Une Revue Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Année : 2019

Hamilton Meets Causal Decision Theory

Johannes Martens
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In this paper, I contrast two mathematically equivalent ways of modeling the evolution of altruism, namely the classical inclusive fitness approach and a more recent, "direct fitness" approach. Though both are usually considered by evolutionists as mere different ways of representing the same causal process (i.e. that of kin selection), I argue that this consensus is actually misleading, for there is a fundamental ambiguity concerning the causal interpretation of the DF approach. Drawing on an analogy between the structure of inclusive fitness theory and that of causal decision theory (Stalnaker 1972), I show that only the inclusive fitness framework can provide us with a proper and unambiguous causal partition of the relevant variables involved in the evolution of altruism.
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hal-04327760 , version 1 (06-12-2023)

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Johannes Martens. Hamilton Meets Causal Decision Theory. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2019, 77, ⟨10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101187⟩. ⟨hal-04327760⟩
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