Lara Buchak

Lara Buchak

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Lara Buchak
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Office: 247 Moses
Office hours: Th 2:00-4:00
Phone: (510) 296-5932
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(Ph.D., Princeton University). Her primary research interests are in decision, game, and rational choice theory. Her work focuses on how an individual should take risk into account when making decisions, and she argues for a more permissive theory of rationality than is standardly assumed. She is also working on two applications of this theory: one in formal epistemology and one in the philosophy of religion. In philosophy of religion, she is interested in what faith is, and under what circumstances it is rational to have faith. She also has more general interests in the philosophy of religion, and in epistemology.