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- Title
Identifying the Explanatory Weakness of Strong Altruism: The Needle in the 'Haystack Model.'.
- Authors
Morris, Stephen G.
- Abstract
Evolutionary theorists have encountered difficulty in explaining how altruistic behavior can evolve. I argue that these theorists have made this task more difficult than it needs to be by focusing their efforts on explaining how nature could select for a strong type of altruism that has powerful selection forces working against it. I argue that switching the focus to a weaker type of altruism renders the project of explaining how altruism can evolve significantly less difficult. I offer a model of weak altruism that can avoid many of the difficulties that evolutionary accounts of altruism have traditionally faced.
- Subjects
ALTRUISM; BIOLOGICAL evolution; CONDUCT of life; HELPING behavior; BIOLOGY; NATURAL selection
- Publication
Philosophy of Science, 2005, Vol 72, Issue 5, p1124
- ISSN
0031-8248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/508121