Crooked Thinking or Straight Talk?: Modernizing Epicurean Scientific Philosophy

Contents\n1 Epicurus\n	1.1 Epicurus as a Guide\n	1.2 Epicureanism?\n	1.3 Life and Times\n	1.4 Epicurean Isms\n		1.4.1 Hedonism\n		1.4.2 Empiricism\n		1.4.3 Materialism\n		1.4.4 Atheism\n		1.4.5 Naturalism\n	1.5 How to Live?\n		1.5.1 Secular Puritanism?\n	1.6 Some Quotes from Epicurus\n2 Rationality as Consistency\n	2.1 Social Engineering\n	2.2 Mechanism Design\n	2.3 Consistency\n		2.3.1 Revealed Preference\n		2.3.2 Accounting for Risk\n		2.3.3 Epicurean Reection\n	2.4 Revealed Belief\n		2.4.1 Bayesianism\n		2.4.2 Abusing the Theory\n		2.4.3 Revealed Knowledge?\n	2.5 Utilitarianism\n		2.5.1 Utilitarianism in Public Policy\n		2.5.2 Why Add Utilities?\n		2.5.3 A Foundation for Utilitarianism\n	2.6 Enforcement\n3 Valuing Lives\n	3.1 Tree of Life\n		3.1.1 Game Tree\n		3.1.2 The End Justifies the Means?\n		3.1.3 Separating out Eve\'s Preferences\n		3.1.4 Choosing a Strategy for Living your Life\n	3.2 Ways of Valuing a Life\n		3.2.1 States of Mind\n		3.2.2 Utilitarian Discounting\n	3.3 Epicurean Valuation of a Life\n		3.3.1 Global Warming\n4 Reciprocity\n	4.1 How to Get Along Together\n	4.2 Suppose Everybody Did That?\n		4.2.1 Categorical Imperative\n		4.2.2 Prisoners\' Dilemma\n		4.2.3 Fallacies\n		4.2.4 Hamilton\'s Rule\n		4.2.5 Free Rider Problem\n		4.2.6 Tragedy of the Commons\n	4.3 Reciprocal Altruism\n		4.3.1 Reciprocating Strategies\n		4.3.2 The Reciprocity Principle\n	4.4 Social Contracts\n		4.4.1 Conventions\n		4.4.2 Constitutions\n	4.5 Global Warming?\n5 Fairness\n	5.1 Evolutionary Ethics\n	5.2 Golden Rule\n		5.2.1 The Original Position\n		5.2.2 Deep Structure of Fairness\n	5.3 Utilitarianism or Egalitarianism?\n	5.4 Achieving a Social Consensus\n		5.4.1 Modeling Social Evolution\n	5.5 Social Contracts\n		5.5.1 Traditional Social Contracts\n		5.5.2 Widening the Scope of Fairness Norms\n		5.5.3 Applying Fairness Norms?\n		5.5.4 Universal Health Care\nIndex