Evolution and the Social Contract

Brian Skyrms is Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Stanford University. He graduated from Lehigh University with degrees in Economics and Philosophy and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His publications include The Dynamics of Rational Deliberation (1990), Evolution of the Social Contract (1996), and The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure (2004).