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To have and to eat cake: The biscriptive role of game-theoretic explanations of human choice behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

William D. Casebeer  and
James E. Parco
William D. Casebeer*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO80840http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfpfa/CVs/Casebeer.html
James E. Parco*
Affiliation:
American Embassy, Tel Aviv, 63903Israelhttp://parco.usafa.biz
*
william.casebeer@usafa.af.mil
james.parco@usafa.af.mil
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Abstract:

Game-theoretic explanations of behavior need supplementation to be descriptive; behavior has multiple causes, only some governed by traditional rationality. An evolutionarily informed theory of action countenances overlapping causal domains: neurobiological, psychological, and rational. Colman's discussion is insufficient because he neither evaluates learning models nor qualifies under what conditions his propositions hold. Still, inability to incorporate emotions in axiomatic models highlights the need for a comprehensive theory of functional rationality.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 159 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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