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Readings for 1/15

• Smith, ‘Humean Rationality’.
• Humberstone, ‘Direction of Fit’.
• Hume, Treatise, II.3.iii. (Optional.)
• Smith, The Moral Problem, ch. 4. (Optional.)

Readings for 1/22

• Smith, ‘Humean Rationality’.
• Lewis, ‘Desire as Belief’.
• Lewis, ‘Desire as Belief II’. (Optional.)

Readings for 2/19

• Lewis, ‘Desire as Belief II’.
• Weintraub, ‘Desire as Belief, Lewis notwithstanding’. (Optional.)
• Parfit, Reasons and Persons, chapter 6.

Readings for 2/26

• Parfit, Reasons and Persons, chapter 8.
• Dougherty, ‘On whether to prefer pain to pass’.
• Street, ‘In defense of Future Tuesday Indifference’. (Optional.)

Readings for 3/5

• Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other, chapter 1.
• Stampe, ‘The Authority of Desire’. (Optional.)

Readings for 3/7

• Parfit, On What Matters, chapters 1 and 2.

Readings for 3/12

• Parfit, On What Matters, chapter 5.
• Dietrich and List, ‘A Reason-Based Theory of Rational Choice’.

Readings for 3/26

• Railton, ‘Toward a Unified Account of Rationality in Belief, Desire, and Action’. (Until the end of the section titled ‘Modeling desire’.)

Readings for 4/2

• Railton, ‘Toward a Unified Account of Rationality in Belief, Desire, and Action’.

Readings for 4/9

• Jeffrey, ‘Preference among Preferences’.
• Dietrich and List, ‘A model of non-informational preference change’.

Readings for 4/16

• Gibbard, Wise Choices, chapters 8 and 9. (You can skip the postscript to chapter 9 on secondary qualities.)
• Gibbard, Wise Choices, chapters 3 and 4. (Optional background reading.)

Readings for 4/18

• Gibbard, Wise Choices, chapters 10 and 11.
• Gibbard, Wise Choices, chapters 12 and 13. (Optional.)

Readings for 4/23

• Greenspan, ‘Practical reasoning and Emotion’.

Readings for 4/30

• Dorr, ‘Non-cognitivism and wishful thinking’.
• Budolfson, ‘Non-cognitivism and rational inference’.