• Bounded rationality in games of strategy 

    Sperry-Taylor, Ashton T. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Traditional game theory predicts behavior contrary to how real people actually behave. And what traditional game theory prescribes as the rational ...
  • Intuitions and adequate philosophical solutions 

    Haugen, Christopher Allen (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    Philosophical investigation relies on intuition; among other things, intuitions are used to discover problems and intuitions are used to provide solutions to those problems. I provide an analysis of three kinds of philosophical ...
  • Resisting the nudge 

    Hamilton, Paul (Paul Robert) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    "Behavioral scientists have discovered that people predictably behave in ways unlike perfectly rational agents or utility maximizers. For example, it has been found that when people make choices, the degree to which they ...
  • Skepticism, reason, and decision 

    Wu, Tung-Ying (University of Missouri--Columbia graduate in Philosophy) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "This dissertation is a combination of three different projects. The first project investigates the history of philosophy: Kant's refutation of idealism. ...
  • Skill-based reliabilism 

    Marshall, Daniel C. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
  • Van Fraassen and a defense of inference to the best explanation 

    Finke, Darin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
    Inference to the best explanation (IBE) is an inductive argument type that takes advantage of the fact that explanatory considerations serve as an epistemic guide to believing what is the case. Bas van Fraassen has presented ...