Prof. Kevin Matthew Dorst

Professor Dorst's projects center around a simple question: What should we think about how people think? A standard answer from psychology is that people's thinking is riddled with irrationality. But it turns out that these interpretations of the data are often questionable, relying on overly simplistic models of what rational people would think or do. Work tries to bring philosophically sophisticated models of rationality to bear on the interpretation of these types of empirical results in order to help assess how (ir)rational we truly are.