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SUMMARY:The emergence of bargaining inequity - Cailin O'Connor (University
  of California\, Irvine)
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DTEND:20160909T163000Z
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CONTACT:Marta Halina
DESCRIPTION:If you ask someone to divide a pie between two imaginary recip
 ients\, they are likely to recommend a 50/50 split. Philosophers like Bria
 n Skyrms and Jason Alexander have employed evolutionary game theory to exp
 lain why such 'fair' divisions are almost universally observed in experime
 ntal work\, and to explain the ubiquity of stated norms of fairness in hum
 an societies. When one moves away from an idealized lab setting\, however\
 , resource division is rarely governed by these stated norms. In particula
 r\, distributive injustice seems to be the rule for many interactions betw
 een those in different social categories - men and women\, for example\, o
 r white people and people of colour. In this talk\, I use evolutionary gam
 e theory to show why unequal patterns of division often emerge between soc
 ial groups\, and to clarify the conditions under which previous results in
  philosophy on the emergence of fairness should be expected to hold.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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