PHIL 371 - Decision Theory

FDR: HU Humanities Distribution
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: PHIL 170 or instructor consent. In this course, students will explore ways that rational decision making both by individuals and groups has been modeled in philosophy, political science, economics, and other social sciences. Potential topics include the notion of credence or subjective probability, expected utility theory, game theory, voting systems, risk, time discounting of goods, representation theorems, the Dutch Book theorem, and debates between causal and evidential decision theorists. In addition to learning the formal methods of decision theory, students will explore debates in contemporary decision theory.