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Glenn Ewan ?Mistaken Instrumentalism in Psychological Egoism and The Selfish Gene? Emergent Australasian Philosophers Issue 3, 2010 1 MISTAKEN INSTRUMENTALISM IN PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM AND THE SELFISH GENE Glenn Ewan The theories of Psychological Egoism and the Selfish Gene both rely on an instrumental process that fails to take account of how a motive or a trait can be a means to more than one end. Psychological egoism ignores the lived, felt experience of benevolence that is a necessary part of the means to an end process. The theory of the selfi