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Altruism, Inclusive Fitness, and “The Logic of Decision”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms*
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University of California, Irvine
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Abstract

We show how Richard Jeffrey's The Logic of Decision provides the proper formalism for calculating expected fitness for correlated encounters in general. As an illustration, some puzzles about kin selection are resolved.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 69 , Issue S3 , September 2002 , pp. S104 - S111
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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