PHIL 243Conflict, Contract and Choice
- Faculty
- Arts
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1982–83 to 1994–95 (before that, 1976–77 to 1981–82 used the number for Risk, Decision, Games, Amalgamation); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Basic concepts of game and decision theory are introduced and applied to ethical theory and problems in social philosophy.
As printed in the 1982–83 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: PHIL 140, 145 or consent of instructor.
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1976–77 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1982–83 to 1994–95 13 calendars
Basic concepts of game and decision theory are introduced and applied to ethical theory and problems in social philosophy.
Prereq: PHIL 140, 145 or consent of instructor.
3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1976–77 to 1981–82 6 calendars
Another title: Risk, Decision, Games, Amalgamation, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Fundamentals of probability and game theory. Problems of decision making under conditions of certainty, risk and uncertainty. The definition and measurement of utility functions. Translation of decisions and preferences of members of a group into collective preference. Some applications to the Social Sciences.
Prereq: Phil 140, 145 or consent of instructor
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit