SP23 PHIL370
Rationality and Decisions (PHIL370)
Wayne Wright
Mondays & Wednesdays · 11:00am–12:15pm · LA5–149
This course satisfies GE area upper-division B]
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.