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Evolving Prosocial AI

Evolving Prosocial AI

October 23, 2025 with Peter Fenton
Prosocial World

Evolving Local Economies From the Ground Up

Evolving Local Economies From the Ground Up

September 10, 2025 with Will Ruddick
Prosocial World

How to Evolve Complex Systems

How to Evolve Complex Systems

August 25, 2025 with Bill Barberg
Prosocial World

Herbert Simon and the Sciences of the Artificial

Herbert Simon and the Sciences of the Artificial, Through the Lens of a New Paradigm

July 29, 2025
Prosocial World

Shaping AI for Good

Shaping AI for Good: Prosocial Hybrid Intelligence for a Thriving Future

June 20, 2025 with Cornelia Walther
Prosocial World

Democracy's Deep Roots

Democracy's Deep Roots: From Hunter-Gatherers to Modern Society

May 23, 2025 with Vivek Venkataraman
Prosocial World

Articles from 2024

Evolutionary Mismatch and How To Evaluate It: A Basic Guide (2024; with Elliot Sober). Prosocial World
The Horizontal Dimension of Engaged Buddhism (2024). Prosocial World
Performance Management through the Lens of a New Paradigm (2024). Prosocial World
The Formations of a Spiritual Society (2024). Prosocial World
Making the Stone Stony: How the Arts Can Help Us (2024). Prosocial World
Natural Selection and Multilevel Selection as Causal Processes (2024; with Elliott Sober). Prosocial World
To Infinity and Beyond (2024). Prosocial World
The Tide of Opinion on Group Selection has Turned (2024). Prosocial World
Barry-Wehmiller's Bold Experiment in Prosocial Cultural Evolution (2024). Prosocial World
Evolution, Human Nature, and Imagination (2024). Prosocial World

Articles from 2023

Why Religious Extremism is Maladaptive (2023). Prosocial World
Can Evolution Be Conscious of Itself? Yes, It Can! (2023). Prosocial World
Socialism, Capitalism, and the Third Way of National Governance (2023). Prosocial World
Economics Will Never Move If We Try To Change It Incrementally (2023). Prosocial World
What is ProSocial Spirituality? (2023). Prosocial World
A Tribalism Vaccine (2023). Prosocial World

Articles from 2022

The Making of Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics (2022; with Dennis J. Snower). Evonomics.com
The Vienna Circle and Pragmatist Clubs: Variation to Select from for Evolutionary Philosophy (2022; with Ed Gibney and Andy Norman). This View of Life
Evaluating Narratives of Conscious Evolution (2022). This View of Life
Constructing Prosocial Environments: The Parable of the Turtle (2022). This View of Life
Conscious Cultural Evolution Takes Root in Latin America (2022). This View of Life
Introducing the Prosocial Commons (2022). This View of Life
E.O. Wilson Saw the World in a Wholly New Way (2022). Nautilus
The Six Legacies of Edward O. Wilson (2022). This View of Life
Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection (2022) This View of Life
The Making of Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics
The Science of the Noosphere
Conscious Cultural Evolution Takes Root in Latin America

Articles from 2021

The NHS Needs Atlas Hugged, not Atlas Shrugged (2021). RSA Journal
I Have Come to Bury Ayn Rand (2021) Nautilus
What Multilevel Selection Theory Tells Us About Free Speech (2021) Aeon
Agile as a Case Study of Cultural Multilevel Selection: A Conversation with Laurent Alt (2021) This View of Life
Stewarding the Cultural Evolution of Complex Systems: The Case of Regenerative Agriculture (with Nicholas Jordan)(2021) This View of Life
Greek Democracy as a Major Evolutionary Transition: A Conversation with Josiah Ober (2021) This View of Life
Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Past, Present, and Future (with Steven C. Hayes) (2021) This View of Life
Introducing Prosocial World to the World (2021) This View of Life
Turning Fiction Into Reality: A Conversation with Stuart Libman (2021) This View of Life

Articles from 2020

Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Series of Conversations (2020) This View of Life
Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: Vision Statement (2020) This View of Life
Pragmatism and the Third Way (with Tryg Throntveit) (2020) This View of Life
Socialism, Capitalism, and the Third Way of National Governance (with Geoffrey Hodgson) (2020) This View of Life
Economics, Public Policy, and the Third Way (with David Colander) (2020) This View of Life
The Role of the Market in the Third Way of Entrepreneurship (with Peter Boettke) (2020) This View of Life
Smart Cities and the Third Way (with Daniel T. O'Brien)(2020) This View of Life
The Third Way in the Internet Age (with Tim O'Reilly) (2020) This View of Life
Development and the Third Way (with Scott Peterson) (2020) This View of Life
Ten Thousand Years of the Third Way: A Conversation with Peter Turchin (2020) This View of Life
The Nordic Third Way (with Nina Witoszek and Atle Midttun) (2020) This View of Life
The Third Way of Entrepreneurship (with Victor Hwang) (2020) This View of Life
Positive Deviance as the Third Way: A Conversation with David K. Hurst (2020) This View of Life
Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Introduction (2020) This View of Life
Debate: Nothing in Sociology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution (with Russell Schutt and Rengin Firat)(2020) This View of Life
The Cheating Cell: An Interview with Athena Aktipis (2020) This View of Life
Evolving the Future of Corporations: A Conversation with Toby Shannan (2020) This View of Life
The Cultural Evolution of Social Pathologies: Introduction to a Series of Essays by Anthony Biglan (2020) This View of Life
Dugnad as Part of Norway's Culture of Cooperation: A Conversation with Carsta Simon and Hilde Mobekk (2020) This View of Life
Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective, with Simon Blackburn (2020) This View of Life
Ayn Rand Meets Her Match: David Sloan Wilson Fights Fiction With Fiction (2020) This View of Life

Articles from 2019

Darwinizing the Federalist Papers (2019) This View of Life
The Origins of Multilevel Selection Theory (with Elliott Sober) (2019) This View of Life
Master Class: A Conversation with Jonathan Birch About the Equivalence of Theories of Social Evolution (2019) This View of Life
What Bret Weinstein Gets Wrong About Group Selection (2019) This View of Life
Group Selection in Every Way Except Using the Words. A Critique of "The Goodness Paradox" by Richard Wrangham (2019) This View of Life
Evolutionary Mismatch and What To Do About It: Introduction to a Series (with Anthony Basile and J. Brett Smith) (2019) This View of Life
Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures (2019) This View of Life

Articles from 2018

Fighting for the Middle Ground: David Sloan Wilson Interviews Holly Dunsworth on the Ethics of Teaching Evolution (2018) This View of Life
Saving Social Constructivism (with Lynnette Shaw) (2018) This View of Life
Attention Teachers! How to Turn Your Classes into Prosocial Groups (2018) This View of Life
This View of Morality: Can an Evolutionary Perspective Reveal a Universal Morality?(with Mark Sloan and Michael Price) (2018) This View of Life
Was Darwin a Group Selectionist? A Conversation with Elliott Sober (2018) This View of Life
Systems Engineering as Cultural Group Selection: A Conversation with Guru Madhavan (2018) This View of Life
Punk Evolutionist: An Interview with Greg Graffin (2018) This View of Life
Evolving the New Economy: Tim O'Reilly and David Sloan Wilson (2018) Evonomics.com
Humanizing Corporations: A Nobel Prize for Enlightened Business Leaders (with Per Saxegaard) (2018) Evonomics.com
A New Way to Think about Solving the World's Biggest Problems (with John Bunzl and Nick Duffell) (2018) Evonomics.com
How To Construct A New Invisible Hand: A Conversation with Peter Barnes (2018) Evonomics.com
Why New Economics Needs a New Invisible Hand (2018) Evonomics.com
Science and Religion Need Not Be At War (2018) This View of Life
Learning from Religion About Social Cells (2018) This View of Life

Articles from 2017

Reaching a New Plateau for the Acceptance of Multilevel Selection (2017) This View of Life
This View of Business: How Evolutionary Thinking Can Transform the Workplace (with Mark Van Vugt and Max Beilby) (2017) This View of Life
Learning from Arizona State University about Interdisciplinarity: A Conversation with Robert Boyd (2017) This View of Life
This View of History: A Conversation with Peter Turchin (2017) This View of Life
Learning from Evolution About Childhood Education: A Conversation with Peter Gray (2017) This View of Life
This View of Leadership: A Conversation with Mark van Vugt (2017) This View of Life
The Freemasons: Prosocial Groups of the Enlightenment Era: A Conversation with Margaret C. Jacob (2017) This View of Life
Orchestrating the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Research Project: An Interview with Tobias Uller (2017) This View of Life
Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Evolution: Tear Down This Wall! A Conversation with Robert Paul (2017) This View of Life
The Riddle—and the Range—of Art: Brian Boyd on the Evolution of the Arts from the Pleistocene to the Present (2017) This View of Life
Writing Evolution Into the Humanist Manifesto IV (2017) This View of Life
Evolutionary Religious Studies Come of Age (2017) This View of Life
How To Create Collective Intelligence (with Geoff Mulgan) (2017) Evonomics.com
How Hayek's Evolutionary Theory Disproves His Politics (with Samual Bowles) (2017) Evonomics.com
The Invisible Hook: How Pirate Society Proves Economic Self-Interest Wrong (2017) Evonomics.com
Evolutionary Psychology and the Standard Social Science Model: Regaining the Middle Ground (2017) This View of Life
The Truth About Fake Facts (2017) This View of Life
Sexual Bullying and the Power of Norms (2017) This View of Life

Articles from 2016

Does God Exist? Actually, Yes (2016) This View of Life
The New Atheism as a Stealth Religion: Five Years Later (2016) This View of Life
Can Evolution Be Conscious? Introducing a Collection of Commentaries Published in This View of Life (with Mel Andrews and Maximus Thaler) (2016) This View of Life
Empowering the Evolutionary Synthesis (with Kevin Laland) (2016) This View of Life
A Conversation with Kim Sterelny about the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (2016) This View of Life
Saved by Evolution: How A Prison Inmate Turned Science into a Meaning System (with Gary Shepherd) (2016) This View of Life
Giving Business the Darwin: An Interview with Mark Van Vugt (2016) This View of Life
When Evolutionists Acquire Superhuman Powers: A Conversation with Peter and Rosemary Grant (2016) This View of Life
Was Dewey a Darwinian? Yes! Yes! Yes! An Interview with Trevor Pearce (2016) This View of Life
Was Hitler a Darwinian? No! No! No! An Interview with Robert Richards (2016) This View of Life
Toward a New Social Darwinism (2016) This View of Life
Why Did Sociology Declare Independence From Biology (And Can They Be Reunited)? An Interview with Russell Schutt (2016) This View of Life
Evolutionary Medicine Comes of Age: An Interview with Randolph Nesse (2016) This View of Life
The One Culture: Four New Books Indicate that the Barrier Between Science and the Humanities is at Last Breaking Down (2016) This View of Life
Darwin's Bridge to the Humanities: An Interview with Joseph Carroll (2016) This View of Life
When the Strong Outbreed the Weak: An Interview with William Muir (2016) This View of Life
TVOL Special Edition: What's Wrong (And Right) About Evolutionary Psychology? (2016) This View of Life
What Donald Trump & Company Need to Know About Evolution (2016) This View of Life
Developing the Field Site Concept of the Study of Cultural Evolution: Two Essays by David Sloan Wilson and Harvey Whitehouse. (2016) This View of Life
In Defense of the Blank Slate (2016) This View of Life
Evolution's Master Craftsman: A Conversation with Richard Lenski (2016) This View of Life
The Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life's Greatest Dilemmas (2016) This View of Life
My Opinion of Noahpinion: A Response to Noah Smith's Critique (2016) This View of Life
The Radical Remaking of Economics, with Eric Beinhocker (2016) This View of Life
The Death of the Invisible Hand: Why the Narrow Pursuit of Self-Interest Always Fails (2016) This View of Life
Why Groups Fail (Hint: For the Same Reasons that Nations Fail) (2016) This View of Life
"My Nation First!" Is No Better Than "Me First!" (2016) This View of Life
Scientists Discover What Economists Haven't Found: Humans (with Joseph Henrich) (2016) This View of Life

Articles from 2015

The Playwright and the Scientist: A Conversation Between Tom Stoppard and David Sloan Wilson (2015) This View of Life
Tom Stoppard's Hard Problems (2015) This View of Life
My Spiritual Journey: Part 1 (2015) This View of Life
My Spiritual Journey: Part 2 (2015) This View of Life
My Spiritual Journey: Part 3 (2015) This View of Life
My Spiritual Journey: Part 4 (2015) This View of Life
My Spiritual Journey: Part 5 (2015) This View of Life
My Spiritual Journey: Part 6 (2015) This View of Life
The New Evolution Institute and the Science-to-Narrative Chain by David Sloan Wilson, President (2015) This View of Life
Doing Well by Doing Good: An Evolution Institute Report on Socially Responsible Businesses (2015) This View of Life
Steering Toward the Omega Point: A Roundtable Discussion of Altruism, Evolution, and Spirituality (with Kurt Johnson) (2015) This View of Life
The Case for Rescuing Tainted Words (2015) This View of Life
Truth and Reconciliation for Social Darwinism (with Eric Michael Johnson) (2015) This View of Life
When Scientists Become Demagogues (2015) This View of Life
Spandrels of San Marcos Revisited: An Interview with Richard Lewontin (2015) This View of Life
Charles Darwin as the Father of Economics: A Conversation with Robert Frank (2015) This View of Life
The Blueprint of Multilevel Selection (reply to commentaries on Blueprint for a Global Village) (2015) This View of Life
Mopping Up Final Opposition to Group Selection (2015) This View of Life
The Tide of Opposition on Group Selection has Turned (2015) This View of Life
Paul Krugman and David Brooks: The Language Prison That Traps Liberals and Conservatives (2015) This View of Life

Articles from 2014

Blueprint for the Global Village (with Dag Hessen) 2014 This View of Life
Pioneers of Evolution: David Sloan Wilson (2014) This View of Life
Let's Start Calling Ourselves Evolutionists! (2014) This View of Life
Prosocial Can Improve the Quality of Life—One Group at a Time (2014) This View of Life

Articles from 2013

Napoleon Chagnon: The Fierce Sociobiologist (2013) This View of Life
The New Invisible Hand (2013) This View of Life
Generalizing the Commons (2013) This View of Life
A Third Wave of Evolutionary Thought (2013) This View of Life
Generalizing the Core Design Principles for the Efficacy of Groups (with Michael Cox) (2013) This View of Life
Evolving the Future (2013) This View of Life
A Good Social Darwinism (2013) This View of Life

Articles from 2012

Welcome to Evolution: This View of Life (2012) This View of Life
Robert Bellah on Religion, Atheism, and the World and All Its Contents (2012) This View of Life
Human Cultures are Primarily Adaptive at the Group Level (2012) This View of Life
Science as a (Fragile) Cultural Adaptation, with Robert N. McCauley (2012) This View of Life
Eight Criticisms Not to Make About Group Selection, with Omar Eldakar (2012) This View of Life
Frans de Waal on the Evolution of Morality (2012) This View of Life
Who is More Phobic About Science—Conservatives or Liberals, with Jonathan Haidt (2012) This View of Life
Pugilistic Science (2012) This View of Life
Jerry Coyne on the New Atheism and Evolutionary Religious Studies (2012) This View of Life
Farewell, Lin Ostrom (2012) This View of Life
What Does it Mean to be Human? An Evolutionist's View (2012) This View of Life

Articles from 2011

Can Evolution Breed Better Communities? (NPR; 2011) This View of Life
Evolution: Darwin's City (Nature magazine) (2011) This View of Life