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What is a "just" society?
In this series of posts, I am explaining what human morality is. In previous posts, I have described fairness norms as generic solutions to the everyday problem of allocating rights and duties in society. I have also discussed the psycholog...
How we decide what is fair in everyday life
In this series of posts, I am explaining what human morality is. In my previous post, I described how we can think of fairness norms as generic solutions for us to solve the daily problems of allocating rights and duties in society. Instead...
What is fairness?
In this series of posts, I am offering a deep explanation of what human morality is. My previous post presented a key insight from game theory: when people repeatedly interact with each other, opportunities to gain from cooperation naturall...
The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers
announced early this week that Robert Trivers passed away.
Trivers was one of the most—perhaps the most—influential evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His work should be much more widely known in social and behavioural sciences,...
The game theory of cooperation
In this series of posts, I am offering a deep explanation of what human morality is. I started this series by pushing back on many popular views about morality, such as the idea that it comes from religion or that there are absolute moral t...
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Behavioural economist - Director of the Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the University of Queensland - Author of "Optimally Irrational. The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do" (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
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