PHIL 5983: Seminar: Belief and Bias
Thursdays, 3:30-5:45; Philosophy Library
Topic: Background on Biases
January 17
Week 1 Notes: Cold Biases (Tversky/Kahneman, Gilovich/Griffin, Kahneman/Tversky, and Gigerenzer)
January 24
Week 2 Notes: Hot Biases (Kunda, Nickerson, and Taylor/Brown)
Topic: Self-Enhancement and Positivity Biases
January 31
Week 3 Notes: Personal Benefits (Robins/Beer, Sedikides/Alicke, and Marshall/Brown)
February 7
Week 4 Notes: Interpersonal Benefits (Paulhus/Trapnell, Uziel, and Hancock/Toma)
Topic: Kin to Belief: Alief, Acceptance, and Implicit Bias
February 14
Week 5 Notes: Alief and Acceptance (Bratman and Gendler)
February 21
Week 6 Notes: Implicit Bias (Levy and Mandelbaum)
Topic: Tribalism and Pro-Sociality
February 28
Week 7 Notes: Imitation (Boyd and Richerson, The Origin and Evolution of Cultures)
March 7
Week 8 Notes: Groups and Reciprocity (Boyd and Richerson, The Origin and Evolution of Cultures)
March 14
Week 9 Notes: Climate Change Denial (Hornsey, et al., Egan/Mullin, TBA)
Midterm Paper Due
March 21
No Class -- Spring Break
March 28
Week 10 Notes: Religion (Sosis, Henrich, and Soler)
***Seminar meeting moved to Wednesday, March 27, 2:00-4:15.
Topic: Sperber and Mercier
April 4
Week 11 Notes: The Enigma of Reason, Introduction and Parts I-II (Mercier and Sperber)
April 11
Week 12 Notes: The Enigma of Reason, Parts III-IV.13 (Mercier and Sperber)
April 18
Week 13 Notes: The Enigma of Reason, Parts IV.14-V and Conclusion (Mercier and Sperber)
Topic: Mindshaping
April 25
Week 14 Notes: Mindshaping, Chapters 1-4 (Zawidzki)
May 2
Week 15 Notes: Mindshaping, Chapters 5-7 (Zawidzki)
May 8
Final Paper Due