Prínos neuroekonómie sociálnej filozofii v problematike kooperácie (Contribution of Neuroeconomics to Social Philosophy in the Case of Cooperation )

Abstract

As a result of development and expansion of neuroimaging techniques in diverse areas of research, scientists started to pay attention to phenomena that were formerly studied within disciplines like economics, psychology or social philosophy. Recently, neuroeconomics is quite ambitious research project, which aims to explain not only the mechanisms of economic decision-making, but also of such social phenomena as cooperation, fairness and trust. The aim of this article is to introduce this new discipline not only in the context of its genesis and in relation to its main assumptions, but also in the context of its unsolved problems. The last part of this article deals with the issue of cooperation in order to show that neuroscience can contribute to the understanding of this area of social philosophy.

Keywords

• neuroeconomics
• social philosophy
• cooperation
• ultimatum game
• prisoner’s dilemma