X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2020%2Fbook-review-the-origins-of-unfairness.md;h=ca63a0f2ba1c634d818107a8779bb4e902043bf7;hp=a9cb47b0efc93089c97d04035695fec0f260b8e5;hb=eb4c0412071db0f44d041b48c677e7d6b4cfdd7e;hpb=644dcc8c4447bd10636c241125015d4f7a934c60 diff --git a/content/2020/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness.md b/content/2020/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness.md index a9cb47b..ca63a0f 100644 --- a/content/2020/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness.md +++ b/content/2020/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Book Review: Cailin O'Connor's The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution Date: 2020-01-20 22:20 Category: commentary -Tags: categorization, feminism, game theory, review (book) +Tags: categorization, convention, feminism, game theory, review (book) [This is a _super-great book_](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-origins-of-unfairness-9780198789970) about the cultural evolutionary game theory of gender roles! (And also stuff like race and religion and caste, I guess, but I'm ignoring that because I haven't gotten around to broadening the topic scope of this blog yet.) I am _unreasonably excited about this book_ for supplying the glue of _analytical rigor_ to a part of my world-model that had previously been held together by threads of mere handwaving! (Three years ago on this blog, I wrote, ["social-role defaults are inevitably going to accrete around [sex differences]"](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/#views-have-changed), but I didn't, and couldn't, have told you _how and why_ in a form suitable for verification by computer simulation.)