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13 leading philosophers and economists discuss the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's trenchant critique of rational choice theory, and propose their own answers to the question of how to account for the rationality of committed action.

Rational choice theory. --- Social choice

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This Element reviews the parts of bargaining theory most important in philosophical applications and to social contract theory, discusses rational choice analyses of bargaining problems that focus on axiomatic analysis, the conventionalist analyses of bargaining problems, and how philosophers use bargaining theory to analyse the social contract.

Rational choice theory --- Social contract. --- Decision making. --- Political aspects.

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These essays focus on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of rational choice and evolution. It links questions like ""is it rational to be moral?"" to the evolution of co-operation, and uses models from game theory, evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

Ethics. --- Rational choice theory. --- Ethics, Evolutionary. --- Prisoner's dilemma game. --- Ethics, Naturalistic --- Evolutionary ethics --- Naturalistic ethics --- Ethics --- Ethical relativism --- Social choice --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Decomposed prisoner's dilemma game --- Choice (Psychology) --- Social interaction