PHIL 266
Games, Rationality and Choice
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for PHIL 266.
Description
Are our decisions a matter of reason alone? How are they influenced by others? And can we reason about what others believe about us? The course introduces some ideas from the logic of preference, decision theory, game theory, probability and models of belief dynamics. It is a practical course of formal methods for philosophy students, with an emphasis on applications.
Availability 2017
Semester 1
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Jeremy Seligman
Recommended Reading
Michael D. Resnik, Choices: An Introduction to Decision Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987)
Points
PHIL 266: 15 points
Prerequisites
30 points in Philosophy or PHIL 101 or PHIL 105