| Kevin J.S. Zollman | Department of Philosophy |
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| Carnegie Mellon University |
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Teaching
We often criticize one another's decisions. People who spend their money at casinos are charged with being ignorant, people who save too much are regarded as miserly, people who chose unpleasant mates are fooling themselves, etc. Sometimes this criticism is failure to recognize diversity – others care about different things than we do – but other times we still regard decisions as wrong even after we know what the decider values. Implicitly judgments like this rely on a notion of “correct” decision making, which will be the topic of our course.
This theory, as it has been developed over many years, is now very detailed and complicated; it involves significant mathematics. The theory is not without its critics either, and we will review a few of those criticisms at the end of the course. Ultimately, learning about this theory will help to tune ones thinking about a variety of problems from gambling to investing to one's romantic life. This work (excluding papers) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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