new schedule for week 7

IMPORTANT: please note that this week’s meeting will be held on the departmental reading room (HH-335), on  Tuesday (Feb.13) at 1pm.

Week 7 – Readings and notes

7- Evolution and economic rationality

Readings:
• Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1994). Better than rational: Evolutionary psychology and the invisible hand. The American Economic Review, 84(2), 327-332.

• Richard Samuels & Stephen Stich, Rationality and Psychology, in Alfred Mele & Piers Rawling, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Rationality. Oxford Reference Library. (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2004. Pp. 279-300

Notes:

• Evolutionary Psychology and rationality