Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Short Communication

Altruism and Darwinian rationality


Howard Margolis a1
a1 Harris School, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 hmarg@uchicago.edu

Abstract

Rachlin adds to the already long list of proposals for reducing what might be seen as social motivation to some roundabout form of self-interest. But his argument exhibits the usual limitations, and prompts questions about what drives this apparently unending quest.