Philosophy 312 - RationalChoice:Games&Decisions
Fall
2025
01
4.00
Alejandro Perez Carballo
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
66151
South College Room E470
apc@umass.edu
This course is about theories of practical rationality that are central to much work on individual and collective decision making in both philosophy and economic theory?Bayesian Decision Theory, Game Theory, and Social Choice Theory. Our goal will be to look at foundational and philosophical questions that arise when formulating mathematical models of decision making and in trying to apply these models both to predict and make sense of individual and collective decision making.
2 course/PHIL or ECON