Modelling Reciprocal Altruism
@article{Stephens1996ModellingRA,
title={Modelling Reciprocal Altruism},
author={Christopher Stephens},
journal={The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science},
year={1996},
volume={47},
pages={533 - 551}
}Biologists rely extensively on the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game to model reciprocal altruism. After examining the informal conditions necessary for reciprocal altruism, I argue that formal games besides the standard iterated Prisoner's Dilemma meet these conditions. One alternate representation, the modified Prisoner's Dilemma game, removes a standard but unnecessary condition; the other game is what I call a Cook's Dilemma. We should explore these new models of reciprocal altruism because…
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