Natural Rationality Conference

Natural Rationality Conference

Thursday March 29, 2007, Room HH-357, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo.

SCHEDULE

9:30 Welcome

9:45   “The Rationality of Gambling” , Kent Ly (University of Waterloo)
10:15 Question time

10:30 “Mechanistic Modeling and Bounded Rationality”, Adam Garetson (University of Waterloo)
11:00 Question time

11:15 End of conference

Week 11 – Readings and notes

Notes are available here

Readings:

• Naqvi, N., Shiv, B., & Bechara, A. (2006). The role of emotion in decision-making: A cognitive neuroscience perspective. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15(5), 260-264.

• Elster, J. (1994). Rationality, emotions, and social norms. Synthese, 98(1), 21-49.

Week 10 – Readings and notes

 Notes are here.

• Berridge, K. C. (2003). Irrational pursuits: Hyper-incentives from a visceral brain. In I. Brocas & J. Carrillo (Eds.), The psychology of economic decisions (pp. 17-40). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Churchland, P. M. (2006). Into the brain: Where philosophy should go from here. Topoi, V25(1), 29-32.

Week 9 – Readings and notes

• Reading notes are here

• Papers:
  • Sanfey, A. G., Loewenstein, G., McClure, S. M., & Cohen, J. D. (2006). Neuroeconomics: Cross-currents in research on decision-making. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10(3), 108-116.

• Payzan, E., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. (2005) Epistemological Foundations for Neuroeconomics. Preprint.