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In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies? Philosopher Cailin O'Connor reveals how cultural evolution works on social categories such as race and gender to generate unfairness
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: The Evolution of Inequity Through Social Coordination
- 1: Gender, Coordination Problems, and Coordination Games
- 2: Social Categories, Coordination, and Inequity
- 3: Cultural Evolution with Social Categories
- 4: The Evolution of Gender
- Part II: The Evolution of Inequity Through Division of Resources
- 5: Power and the Evolution of Inequity
- 6: The Cultural Red Queen and the Cultural Red King
- 7: Discrimination and Homophily
- 8: The Evolution of Household Bargaining
- 9: Evolution and Revolution
- 10: Conclusion
About the author
Cailin O'Connor is an Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is a philosopher of science and evolutionary game theorist. O'Connor engages in both theoretical and experimental work on topics ranging from scientific communities, to false beliefs, to moral emotions, to signalling. She is the co-author of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Yale 2019, with James Owen Weatherall)
Summary
In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies? Philosopher Cailin O'Connor reveals how cultural evolution works on social categories such as race and gender to generate unfairness
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Human groups across cultures and times have divided labor by gender. What explains this fact, along with related inequities in the division of resources? ... Cailin O'Connor illuminates this complicated story using evolutionary game-theoretic modeling.
