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Subject: Philosophy (PHIL)
CRN: 21991
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: McNeely Hall 108
2020 Core Requirements Met:
Integ/Humanities
Drawing on insights from philosophy as well as research from cognitive science, psychology, and behavioral economics, this course aims to help students learn to reason better. Emphasis is on inductive and probabilistic reasoning rather than on deductive logic (which is the focus in PHIL 220). Possible topics covered include cognitive biases to which humans are naturally subject, intellectual virtues that promote the attainment of truth, the nature of evidence, the assessment of the quality of an information source, inference to the best explanation, probabilistic reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty and risk. Prerequisite: PHIL 110 PHIL 115 or PHIL 197.
4 Credits