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The abilities to gather information, reason, decide, and solve problems are central to our rationality and survival. Our brains routinely solve problem too complex for the mightiest computer, yet fails dramatically to establish correct knowledge and make logical inferences regarding simple everyday events. The culprits can be partially traced to cognitive shortcuts (heuristics) and their inevitable biases; these account for errors in economics, medicine, business, judicial systems, and human relations. This course offers a theoretical and pragmatic analysis of these cognitive tools.

Instructor: Dr. Leah Savion (Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine)

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