Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Elliott Sober , David Sloan Wilson

Isis ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-380
Author(s):  
David Wÿss Rudge
Keyword(s):  
Elliott Sober ◽  
Unselfish Behavior

Altruism RevisitedUnto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Elliott Sober , David Sloan Wilson

1999 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth A. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Elliott Sober ◽  
Unselfish Behavior

Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Elliott Sober , David Sloan Wilson

Isis ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 406-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Maienschein
Keyword(s):  
Elliott Sober ◽  
Unselfish Behavior

Bayesianism and IBE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Model ◽  
Group Selection ◽  
Test Cases ◽  
Hybrid View ◽  
Elliott Sober ◽  
Scientific Arguments ◽  
Explanatory Virtue

Different views have been proposed about how Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and Bayesianism might be compatible with one another. One is a hybrid view, according to which explanatory considerations play a role in driving the Bayesian machinery. Another is an ‘emergent compatibilist’ view, in which an independently motivated Bayesian model of IBE is provided, so that explanatory considerations emerge from the Bayesian machinery rather than driving it. Specific scientific arguments can serve as test cases for these general views. The chapter argues that the case of Williams’ argument against group selection, discussed by Elliott Sober, is better understood with the emergent compatibilist picture, than with the hybrid view. This analysis of the case challenges Elliott Sober’s claim that the epistemic significance of appeals to the explanatory virtue of parsimony is highly case-specific. Instead, a more unified picture of IBE and its connection to Bayesianism is suggested.

The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus. Elliott Sober

1985 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-646
Author(s):  
David C. Culver
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Elliott Sober

Explaining unselfish behavior: Crime and the helpful bystander

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles T. Clotfelter
Keyword(s):  
Unselfish Behavior

Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior

Ethology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-178 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Unselfish Behavior

The design argument: Elliott Sober

2003 ◽  
pp. 40-68
Keyword(s):  
Design Argument ◽  
Elliott Sober
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