Geoffrey Sayre-McCord and Geoffrey Brennan: On Cooperation

Lecture by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord and Geoffrey Brennan (North Carolina at Chapel Hill), organized by the Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Adam Smith rightly emphasized – repeatedly – the importance of cooperation in making people better off. He was not the first nor, by any means, the last. Indeed, “cooperation” is a term that is widely deployed in contemporary scholarship – not just in the social sciences (economics and political science most notably) and in the humanities (moral philosophy and political theory most notably) but also in evolutionary biology. In addition to...(continue reading...)