Overview
- First book to propose a systematic exploration of the key concepts common to evolution and economics
- Proposes syntheses of the similarities and differences for each concept
- Arguments are given in a concise and accessible style
Part of the book series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (HPTL, volume 28)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jean-Baptiste André is a researcher at the CNRS, working at the Département d’Etudes Cognitives of the Ecole Normale Supérieure - PSL Research University. He is a theoretician in evolutionary biology, working on human social behavior with an evolutionary perspective, and interested primarily in the evolution of cooperation and morality.
Mikaël Cozic is Professor of contemporary philosophy at the University of Lyon 3. He works on the methodology of economics and decision theory. His research concerns also formal theories of epistemic and practical rationality, mainly in the Bayesian tradition.
Silvia De Monte. Researcher at the Institute of Biology of Ecole Normale Supérieure (CNRS/ PSL Research University), Paris, and at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany. Her research focuses on the ecology and evolution of collective behaviours, notably in microbial populations, combining mathematical models and analysis of observational data.
Jean Gayon. Historian and philosopher of science. He was a former Professeur at the Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, and former director of the Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (CNRS / Université Paris I Panthéon / Sorbonne).
Philippe Huneman. Research Director at the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (CNRS / Paris I Sorbonne). Philosopher of biology, he works on the philosophy of evolutionary biology and ecology, and especially issues regarding natural selection, individuality, organisms and explanatory types.
Johannes Martens is a philosopher of biology and a permanent researcher at the CNRS in Paris (Sorbonne University). His works concern primarily the theoretical structure and the philosophical implications of social evolution theory.
Bernard Walliser is a researcher at Paris School of Economics (Ecole Normale Supérieure) and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His research concerns mainly the social impact of economic agents’ beliefs, conceptualized in a game theory framework, as well as different topics in economic methodology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back
Book Subtitle: Parallels and Crossings between Economics and Evolution
Authors: Jean-Baptiste André, Mikael Cozic, Silvia De Monte, Jean Gayon, Philippe Huneman, Johannes Martens, Bernard Walliser
Series Title: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08790-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08789-9Published: 14 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-08792-9Published: 14 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-08790-5Published: 12 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2211-1948
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1956
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 186
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Biology, Economics, general, Ecology, Epistemology