Cailin O'Connor (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Universi

Gebundenes Buch

The Origins of Unfairness

Social Categories and Cultural Evolution

Beschreibung

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies? Philosopher Cailin O'Connor reveals how cultural evolution works on social categories such as race and gender to generate unfairness.

Autor

Cailin O'Connor is an Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is a philosopher of science and evolutionary game theorist. O'Connor engages in both theoretical and experimental work on topics ranging from scientific communities, to false beliefs, to moral emotions, to signalling. She is the co-author of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Yale 2019, with James Owen Weatherall)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 139mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780198789970
• ISBN-10: 0198789971
• Artikelnr.: 56587589