Notes

NATURAL RATIONALITY

– PHIL 474/673 –

WINTER 2007

Reading notes

Benoit Hardy-Vallée

Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo

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Class hours: 9:30 – 11:30
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Week 2, Jan. 11: Historical and philosophical roots of natural rationality (I) (pdf)
Week 3, Jan. 18: Historical and philosophical roots of natural rationality (II) (pdf)
Week 4, Jan. 25: The formalization of rationality (pdf)
Week 5, Feb. 1: Rationality and behavioral economics (pdf)
Week 6, Feb. 8: Ecological Rationality (pdf)
Week 7, Feb. ?: Evolutionary Psychology and rationality(pdf)
Week 8, March 1st. Embodiment and economic rationality(pdf)
Week 9, March 8. Neuroeconomics and rationality
Week 10, March 15. Neuroeconomics and irrationality
Week 11, March 22. Neuroeconomics and emotions
Week 12, March 29. Student’s conference.