Dr Jason McKenzie Alexander

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Title

Reader in Philosophy

Research interests

Evolutionary game theory, philosophy of science, and social and political philosophy.

Publications

Publications include:

Books

• The Structural Evolution of Morality. Cambridge University Press (November 2007).

Book Chapters

• "Co-operation." In A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology . Eds. Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski. Blackwell Publishers. (Forthcoming)
• "Evolution, Morality, and the Theory of Rational Choice," in C.F. Gethmann (Hg.), /Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft./ Kolloquienbeiträge und öffentliche Vorträge des XXI. Deutschen Kongresses für Philosophie (Essen 15. – 19.09. 2008), Hamburg: Meiner 2010 (Deutsches Jahrbuch Philosophie, Bd. 3)
• "Game Theory." In The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia . Ed. Sahotra Sarkar. Routledge Press (2005): 11 pages.
• "Artificial Justice." In Artificial Life VIII. Eds. Mark A. Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard, and Steen Rasmussen. MIT Press (2000): 513-523.

Articles

• "Local Interactions and Dynamics of Rational Deliberation", Philosophical Studies (forthcoming, 2009)
• "Robustness, Optimality, and the Handicap Principle", Biology and Philosophy 2009
• "Social Deliberation: Nash, Bayes, and the Partial Vindication of Gabriele Tarde", in Episteme, vol. 6, issue 2, 2009, pp. 164-184.
• "The Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism," Analyse & Kritik, 27 (2005): 106-113.
• "Follow the Leader: Local Interactions with Influence Neighborhoods," Philosophy of Science 72: 86-113 (2005)
• "Random Boolean Networks and Evolutionary Game Theory," Philosophy of Science, 70 (December 2003) pp1289-1304.
• "Group Dynamics in the State of Nature," Erkenntnis, vol 55 pp 169-182, 2001
• "Evolutionary Explanations of Distributive Justice," Philosophy of Science, 67 (September 2000), pp 490-516
• "Artificial Justice" in Artificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference, edited by Mark A Bedau, John S McCaskill, Norman H Packard, and Steen Rasmussen, MIT Press, 2000
• "Bargaining with Neighbors: Is Justice Contagious?" (co-authored with Brian Skyrms), Journal of Philosophy, vol 96, no. 11, pp 588-598, November 1999.

Other refereed publications

• "Book Review: The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure." Economics and Philosophy , 22 (2006): 441-448.
• "Evolutionary Game Theory." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/ .

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