PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Condom, Thorstein Veblen, Philip Kitcher
27 Mar 2016
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Philip kitcher says: one way to think about altruism is that the things they want are what other people want. If you take the blue bill for the. Something that will be on the exam: it"s about explanatory theories, explaining why people do what they do. Why do they do it, because its about conspicuous consumption/making a display of what you"re worth. The theory only unifies a small domain of facts: blackburn critiques grad unifying theories because they cover to much and do not really clarify anything, overall blackburn dislikes descriptive explanatory egoism and likes veblen"s theory. It is because the best reproductive strategy of men is very different from the best reproductive strategy of women. You replicate your genes by producing so the name of the game is to maximize your decedents: men: suppose you wanted to have as many kids as you wanted. It does not take long for a guy to make a kid.
