Alexander, J. McKenzie
Dr J. McKenzie Alexander
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Experience keywords:
evolutionary game theory; norms; computational methods in philosophy; philosophy; evolution of social/moral norms
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I work primarily in evolutionary game theory and especially on methodological and theoretical issues related to the attempt to provide (cultural) evolutionary explanations of moral and social norms. I also have broad interests in the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of biology.
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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Alexander, J McKenzie (2013) Decision theory meets the Witch of Agnesi. Journal of philosophy, ISSN 0022-362X Alexander, J McKenzie (2013) Learning to signal in a dynamic world. British journal for the philosophy of science, ISSN 0007-0882 Alexander, J McKenzie (2013) Preferential attachment and the search for successful theories. Philosophy of science, ISSN 0031-8248 Alexander, J. McKenzie (2012) Why the angels cannot choose. Australasian journal of philosophy , 90 (4). pp. 619-640. ISSN 0004-8402 Alexander, Jason McKenzie and Skyrms, Brian and Zabell, Sandy L. (2012) Inventing new signals. Dynamic games and applications, 2 (1). pp. 129-145. ISSN 2153-0785 Alexander, J. McKenzie (2011) Expectations and choiceworthiness. Mind, 120 (479). pp. 803-817. ISSN 0026-4423 Alexander, J. McKenzie (2010) Local interactions and the dynamics of rational deliberation. Philosophical studies, 147 (1). pp. 103-121. ISSN 0031-8116 Alexander, J. McKenzie (2010) Robustness, optimality, and the handicap principle. Biology and philosophy, 25 (5). pp. 868-879. ISSN 0169-3867 Alexander, J. McKenzie (2010) Reconciling morality with the theory of rational choice via evolution. In: Lebenswelt un Wissenschaft: Kolloquienbeiträge und öffentliche Vorträge des XXI. Deutschen Kongresses für Philosophie / Meiner, Hamburg, Germany. Alexander, J. McKenzie (2009) Social deliberation: Nash, Bayes, and the partial vindication of Gabriele Tarde. Episteme, 6 (2). pp. 164-184. ISSN 1742-3600 Alexander, J McKenzie (2008) Cooperation. In: Sarkar, Sahorta and Plutynski, Anya, (eds.) Companion to the philosophy of biology. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 415-430. ISBN 9781405125727 Alexander, J McKenzie (2007) The structural evolution of morality. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521870320 Alexander, Jason and Bicchieri, Cristina, (eds.) (2007) PSA: proceedings of the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. University of Chicago Press. Alexander, J McKenzie (2006) Game theory. In: Sarkar, Sahotra and Pfeifer, Jessica, (eds.) The philosophy of science: an encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 041597710X Alexander, J McKenzie (2006) Book review: the stag hunt and the evolution of social structure. Economics and philosophy, 22 (3). pp. 441-448. ISSN 1474-0028 Vanderschraaf, Peter and Alexander, J McKenzie (2005) Follow the leader : local interactions with influence neighborhoods. Philosophy of science, 72 (1). pp. 86-113. ISSN 0031-8248 Alexander, J McKenzie (2005) The evolutionary foundations of strong reciprocity. Analyse and kritik: zeitschrift fur sozialtheorie, pp. 106-112. ISSN 0171-5860 Alexander, J McKenzie (2003) Random Boolean networks and evolutionary game theory. Philosophy of science, 70 (1). pp. 1289-1304. ISSN 0270-8647 Alexander, J McKenzie (2003) Artificial justice. In: Bedua, Mark and McCaskill, John and Packard, Norman and Rasmussen, Steen, (eds.) Artificial life VIII: proceedings of the eighth international conference on artificial life. MIT Press, pp. 513-523. ISBN 0262692813 Alexander, J McKenzie and Barrett, Jeffrey, (eds.) (2002) PSA: proceedings of the biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Alexander, J McKenzie (2002) Behaviorism and altruistic acts. Behavioral and brain sciences, 25 (2). ISSN 0140-525X Alexander, Jason (2001) Group dynamics in the state of nature. Erkenntnis, 55 (2). pp. 169-182. ISSN 1572-8420 Alexander, J McKenzie (2001) Evolutionary game theory. The Standord encyclopedia of philosophy, Fall ISSN 1095-5054 Alexander, J McKenzie and Balasubramanian, Rajalakshmi and Martin, Jeremy and Monahan, Kimberly and Pollatsek, Harriet and Sen, Ashna (2000) Ruling out (160, 54, 18) difference sets in some nonabelian groups. Journal of combinatorial designs, 8 (4). pp. 221-231. ISSN 1063-8539 Alexander, J McKenzie (2000) Evolutionary explanations of distributive justice. Philosophy of science, 67 (3). pp. 490-516. ISSN 0270-8647 Alexander, J McKenzie and Ebner, Marc and Watson, Richard (2000) Co-evolutionary dynamics on a deformable landscape. In: Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation: CEC00: July 16-19, 2000, La Jolla Marriott Hotel, La Jolla, California, USA. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Picastaway, New Jersey, pp. 1284-1291. ISBN 0780363752 Alexander, Jason and Skyrms, Brian (1999) The (spatial) evolution of the equal split. University of California - Irvine, Irvine, USA Alexander, J McKenzie and Skyrms, Brian (1999) Bargaining with neighbors: is justice contagious? Journal of philosophy, 96 (11). pp. 588-598. ISSN 0022-362x
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