Syllabus (PDF) (Word)
 

Class notes, handouts, links, etc.:
 

Week 1.  Introductory Distinctions and Points

W Aug. 25  Notes (PDF) (Word) (HTML)
 

Week 2.  Must We Be Rational? I:  Rationality and Meaning Restrictions on Belief

W Sept. 1  Notes (PDF) (Word) (HTML)
 

Week 3.  Must We Be Rational? II:  Apparent, Systematic Shortcomings in Human Reasoning

W  Sept. 8  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 4.  Must We Be Rational? III:  But Wait!  Can Philosophy Nullify the Psychological Case for Systematic Irrationality?

W  Sept. 15  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 5.  Must We Be Rational? IV:  More Moderate Responses to Tversky and Kahneman, from Psychology

W  Sept. 22  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Handout (PDF) (Word)

Week 6.  Simple Heuristics I:  Recognition and One-Reason Decision Making

W  Sept. 29  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 7.  Simple Heuristics II:  Memory, Estimation, and Categorization

W  Oct. 6  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 8.  Simple Heuristics III:  Finding Mates, Raising Children, and Summary

W  Oct. 13  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 9.  Delusions I:  Introduction and Stone/Young’s Two-Factored Account

W  Oct. 20  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 10.  Delusions II:  More on Understanding Delusions

W  Oct. 27  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 11.  Delusions III:  Rationality and the Deluded

W  Nov. 3  Notes (PDF) (Word)
    *Handout (PDF) (Word)

Week 12.  Self-Deception I:  The Puzzles of Self-Deception

W  Nov. 10  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 13.  Self-Deception II:  Mele’s Account of Self-Deception

W  Nov. 17  Notes (PDF) (Word)
 

Week 14.  Turkey

W  Nov. 24  NO CLASS   FALL BREAK
 

Week 15.  Self-Deception III:  Believe What You Want

W  Dec. 1  Notes (PDF) (Word)