COR 462 JUDGEMENT: REASON, EMOTION, AND DECISION-MAKING IN DAILY LIFE
Human beings are, if nothing else, judging beings. We are constantly called on to make judgments ranging from those of personal worth (who should be my friend?), to aesthetics (what type of music and art should I appreciate?), to ethics (is that right?), to economics (should I take a loan to fund my education?), to politics (with whom should I associate?). While it has long been argued that judgment is the purview of reason alone, it is now clear that emotion is integral to our ability to judge at all. The problem this insight poses is that it may mean that none of our judgments are actually justifiable; instead, they be merely driven by our passions. This is an interdisciplinary capstone course designed to explore the interconnections of reason and emotion in judgment through the lens of philosophy, history, political science, ethics, aesthetics, neuroscience, and behavioral economics.
Course Types
Core Interdisciplinary Seminar
Notes
This course is writing intensive. Open to students in the third or fourth year of study.