Unravelling into war: trust and social preferences in Hobbes’s state of nature

IF 1.2 2区哲学 Q3 ECONOMICS

Economics and Philosophy Pub Date : 2021-07-30 DOI:10.1017/S0266267121000079

A. Schaefer, Jineun Sohn

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract According to Hobbes, individuals care about their relative standing in a way that shapes their social interactions. To model this aspect of Hobbesian psychology, this paper supposes that agents have social preferences, that is, preferences about their comparative resource holdings. Introducing uncertainty regarding the social preferences of others unleashes a process of trust-unravelling, ultimately leading to Hobbes’s ‘state of war’. This Trust-unravelling Model incorporates important features of Hobbes’s argument that past models ignore.

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走进战争：霍布斯自然状态下的信任与社会偏好

摘要根据霍布斯的观点，个人关心他们的亲属地位，这决定了他们的社会互动。为了模拟霍布斯心理学的这一方面，本文假设代理人具有社会偏好，即对其相对资源持有的偏好。引入他人社会偏好的不确定性会引发信任瓦解的过程，最终导致霍布斯的“战争状态”。这种信任瓦解模型包含了霍布斯论点的重要特征，而过去的模型忽略了这些特征。

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Economics and Philosophy Multiple-

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1.80

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： The disciplines of economics and philosophy each possess their own special analytical methods, whose combination is powerful and fruitful. Each discipline can be enriched by the other. Economics and Philosophy aims to promote their mutual enrichment by publishing articles and book reviews in all areas linking these subjects. Topics include the methodology and epistemology of economics, the foundations of decision theory and game theory, the nature of rational choice in general, historical work on economics with a philosophical purpose, ethical issues in economics, the use of economic techniques in ethical theory, and many other subjects.