FA22 PHIL370(01)
Rationality and Decisions (PHIL370 section 01)
Dr. Wayne Wright
Mondays & Wednesdays · 11:00am–12:15pm · synchronous online
This course introduces students to formal techniques for making and evaluating decisions. In order to develop their skills in representing and analyzing decisions, students will be exposed to concepts and methods from areas such as symbolic logic, probability theory, and game theory. While we will be interested primarily in normative issues (having to do with how one ought to reason), we will also take note of empirical findings regarding how human beings tend to actually make decisions. The course is aimed at equipping students with tools they can use to improve the decisions they make and to avoid common errors of reasoning.
This course satisfies GE upper-division B.