We constantly face the need to make decisions, may they be relatively trivial: do I go for the pepperoni pizza or the ham and pineapple one? Or momentous ones: do I get married to him? Philosophers have looked at human decision making from a variety of different perspectives: What are the processes involved in the way people actually make decisions? How should we go about making decisions? What sorts of challenges do we face in making decisions, and how might we be able to overcome them? Should we regret bad decisions we made in the past, or just move on?

This module aims to introduce students to some of the answers philosophers have given to these questions, and to evaluate them critically.