Role Of Generosity Research Articles

The role of generosity on the evolution of cooperation

Cooperation between non-kin is a mysterious phenomenon and needs explanation from evolutionary perspective. The mechanism under which players choose to keep or stop the interaction with the current partner based upon what the current partner does can facilitate the evolution of cooperation. Animals including humans are error prone and sometimes fail in cooperating even when they intend to cooperate. In the presence of such an error, those who defected are not always players who intended to defect; therefore, it is not obvious whether stopping the interaction with a player who defected is a nice option or not. Additionally, are cooperators more or less likely to evolve when execution errors are present? By using a simple mathematical model, we reveal that generosity who misses defection by the partner and keeps the interaction can facilitate the evolution of cooperation and that mistakes can facilitate the evolution of cooperation.

Role of generosity and forgiveness: Return to a cooperative society.

One's reputation in human society depends on what and how one did in the past. If the reputation of a counterpart is too bad, we often avoid interacting with the individual. We introduce a selective cooperator called the goodie, who participates in the prisoner's dilemma game dependent on the opponent's reputation, and study its role in forming a cooperative society. We observe enhanced cooperation when goodies have a small but nonzero probability of playing the game with an individual who defected in previous rounds. Our finding implies that even this small generosity of goodies can provide defectors chances of encountering the better world of cooperation, encouraging them to escape from their isolated world of selfishness.

Pulling threads: Intimate systematicity in The Politics of Exile

The achievements of Elizabeth Dauphinee’s (2013) The Politics of Exile are highlighted by means of two juxtapositions. First, Dauphinee’s book invites a contrast to novels because it takes the form of a story. Specifically, Dauphinee’s portrait of the vilified ‘Serbs’ is compared with how the Taliban are treated in Khalid Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil. Second, The Politics of Exile is examined as it emerges from Dauphinee’s efforts to overcome the limits of her more academic work. The advantages of Dauphinee’s approach relative to our standard research are presented along five dimensions: the responsibility of closure, the purpose of narration, the transparency of the message, how the work is shown, and the role of generosity. This article critiques Dauphinee’s silence on the purpose of travel. It closes by suggesting what social theory can glean from The Politics of Exile. Social theorists can learn how to theorize more systematically, to weigh the relationship between the form and content in writing more judiciously, and to probe the deeper purposes of our intellectual life-work more fully.

Mourning Administrative Generosity in a Postgenerous Time

This article examines the role of generosity in public administration from a peculiar literary perspective, that of Wallace Shawn’s play, The Designated Mourner. In the recent past, deontologists in the discipline, such as Emette Redford, articulated rich theories of democratic responsiveness, but today these theories no longer command a scholarly consensus. This collapse, or “death,” of deontology has led to a scramble for a new philosophical foundation to animate the study and practice of administration, with various candidates self-proclaiming themselves to be deontology’s designated mourner. This article examines three candidates: neo-Lockean natural law, neo-Habermassean communicative competence, and neo-Nietzschean receptive generosity. Only the third contains a strong enough commitment to democratic generosity to resist the temptations of self-effacement represented by Shawn’s designated mourner.