Evolution, Co-operation and Rationality

• The Project
• Events
  • Conferences
    • Conference 2011
    • Optimization in Biology & Economics
    • Evolution, Cooperation & Rationality 2009
  • Workshops
• Members & Associates
• Publications

This project is supported by the AHRC

Optimization in Biology & Economics

A conference co-organised with and hosted by the Evo-Eco project at the Institute for the Philosophy and History of Science & Technology (IHPST), Paris

April 12th-13th 2010

Speakers:

• Ken Binmore    Economics, University College London, University of Bristol
  "Experimental Economics: Science or what"
• Andy Gardner   Zoology, Oxford
  "Group Selection versus Group Adaptation"
• Alan Grafen  Animal Behaviour, Zoology, Oxford
  "Optimisation in Evolution: Moving from analogy to derivation"
• Alex Kacelnik  Behavioural Ecology, Zoology, Oxford
  "Function and Mechanism in Biological Research in Decision Making"
• Laurent Lehmann   Biology, Neuchatel
  "The Evolution of Long-Lasting Behaviours"
• Arthur Robson   Economics,Simon Fraser University
  "The Evolutionary Basis of Time Preferences"
• Larry Samuelson    Economics, Yale
  "The Evolution of Decision and Experienced Utility"
• Tom Wenseleers  Biology, Leuven
  "The Maximand of Selection Under Genetic or Cultural Evolution"