Collective Rationality And Collective Reasoning

Author : Christopher McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521011787

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"This book examines the issue of rational cooperation, especially cooperation between people with conflicting moral commitments. The first part considers how the two main aspects of cooperation - the choice by a group of a particular cooperative scheme and the decision by each member to contribute to that scheme - can be understood as guided by reason. The second part explores how the activity of reasoning itself can take a cooperative form. The book is distinctive in offering an account of what people can accomplish by reasoning together, of the role of deliberation in democratic decision making, and of the negotiation of the proper use of concepts. Presenting for the first time a detailed analysis of the general problem of cooperation and collective reasoning between people with different moral commitments, this book will be of particular interest to philosophers of the social sciences and to students in political science, sociology and economics." --Cambridge Press.

Author : Yearwood, John
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466618190

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Approaches for Community Decision Making and Collective Reasoning: Knowledge Technology Support by Yearwood, John Pdf

"This book focuses on how groups can structure their activities toward making better decisions or in developing technologies for the support of decision-making in groups"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Andrew Stranieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:794903912

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Approaches for Community Decision Making and Collective Reasoning by Andrew Stranieri Pdf

Author : Paul Weirich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019974145X

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Collective Rationality by Paul Weirich Pdf

Groups of people perform acts that are subject to standards of rationality. A committee may sensibly award fellowships, or may irrationally award them in violation of its own policies. A theory of collective rationality defines collective acts that are evaluable for rationality and formulates principles for their evaluation. This book argues that a group's act is evaluable for rationality if it is the products of acts its members fully control. It also argues that such an act is collectively rational if the acts of the group's members are rational. Efficiency is a goal of collective rationality, but not a requirement, except in cases where conditions are ideal for joint action and agents have rationally prepared for joint action. The people engaged in a game of strategy form a group, and the combination of their acts yields a collective act. If their collective act is rational, it constitutes a solution to their game. A theory of collective rationality yields principles concerning solutions to games. One principle requires that a solution constitute an equilibrium among the incentives of the agents in the game. In a cooperative game some agents are coalitions of individuals, and it may be impossible for all agents to pursue all incentives. Because rationality is attainable, the appropriate equilibrium standard for cooperative games requires that agents pursue only incentives that provide sufficient reasons to act. The book's theory of collective rationality supports an attainable equilibrium-standard for solutions to cooperative games and shows that its realization follows from individuals' rational acts. By extending the theory of rationality to groups, this book reveals the characteristics that make an act evaluable for rationality and the way rationality's evaluation of an act responds to the type of control its agent exercises over the act. The book's theory of collective rationality contributes to philosophical projects such as contractarian ethics and to practical projects such as the design of social institutions.

Author : Brad C. Anderson
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781838679415

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Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom by Brad C. Anderson Pdf

This book presents an analysis of organizational wisdom via an embedded single case study of a group's attempt to develop and spread a medical innovation within a Canadian healthcare authority. By offering a unique insight into how values, rationality, and power interact in a real social setting, the book explores how they create positive change.

Author : Enrico Pattaro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Jurisprudence
ISBN : 1402033877

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A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence by Enrico Pattaro Pdf

Author : Fabienne Peter,Hans Bernhard Schmid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199287260

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Rationality and Commitment by Fabienne Peter,Hans Bernhard Schmid Pdf

Thirteen leading philosophers and economists discuss the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's trenchant critique of rational choice theory, and propose their own answers to the question of how to account for the rationality of committed action. The volume concludes with a specially-written reply by Sen.

Author : Marija Jankovic,Kirk Ludwig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317666851

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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality by Marija Jankovic,Kirk Ludwig Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary research. It consists of 36 chapters, written exclusively for this volume, by an international team of experts. What is distinctive about the study of collective intentionality within the broader study of social interactions and structures is its focus on the conceptual and psychological features of joint or shared actions and attitudes, and their implications for the nature of social groups and their functioning. This Handbook fully captures this distinctive nature of the field and how it subsumes the study of collective action, responsibility, reasoning, thought, intention, emotion, phenomenology, decision-making, knowledge, trust, rationality, cooperation, competition, and related issues, as well as how these underpin social practices, organizations, conventions, institutions and social ontology. Like the field, the Handbook is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, legal theory, anthropology, sociology, computer science, psychology, economics, and political science. Finally, the Handbook promotes several specific goals: (1) it provides an important resource for students and researchers interested in collective intentionality; (2) it integrates work across disciplines and areas of research as it helps to define the shape and scope of an emerging area of research; (3) it advances the study of collective intentionality.

Author : Randall Edward Harp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Collective behavior
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211376392

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Collective Goals, Collective Reasoning, Collective Action by Randall Edward Harp Pdf

Author : Christopher McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107177178

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Reasonableness and Fairness by Christopher McMahon Pdf

This book presents a historically focused account of the concepts of 'reasonableness' and 'fairness', showing how they are subject to historical evolution.

Author : Yearwood, John,Stranieri, Andrew
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781609600938

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Technologies for Supporting Reasoning Communities and Collaborative Decision Making: Cooperative Approaches by Yearwood, John,Stranieri, Andrew Pdf

The information age has enabled unprecedented levels of data to be collected and stored. At the same time, society and organizations have become increasingly complex. Consequently, decisions in many facets have become increasingly complex but have the potential to be better informed. Technologies for Supporting Reasoning Communities and Collaborative Decision Making: Cooperative Approaches includes chapters from diverse fields of enquiry including decision science, political science, argumentation, knowledge management, cognitive psychology and business intelligence. Each chapter illustrates a perspective on group reasoning that ultimately aims to lead to a greater understanding of reasoning communities and inform technological developments.

Author : Oswald A. J. Mascarenhas, SJ,Munish Thakur,Payal Kumar
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781837533121

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A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics by Oswald A. J. Mascarenhas, SJ,Munish Thakur,Payal Kumar Pdf

A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics: Critical Thinking Applied to Business Management (Volume 2) encapsulates new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics.

Author : Raimo Tuomela
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780195313390

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The Philosophy of Sociality by Raimo Tuomela Pdf

Concepts based on full-blown collective intentionality (aboutness) are central for understanding the social world. The book systematically studies social groups, collective commitment, group intentions, beliefs, and actions, especially authority-based group attitudes and actions, also addressing cooperation, cultural evolution, and responsibility.

Author : Craig S. Womack,Daniel Heath Justice,Christopher B. Teuton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0806138874

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Reasoning Together by Craig S. Womack,Daniel Heath Justice,Christopher B. Teuton Pdf

A paradigm shift in American Indian literary criticism.

Author : Sara Rachel Chant,Frank Hindriks,Gerhard Preyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199936519

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From Individual to Collective Intentionality by Sara Rachel Chant,Frank Hindriks,Gerhard Preyer Pdf

Many of the things we do, we do together with other people. Think of carpooling and playing tennis. In the past two or three decades it has become increasingly popular to analyze such collective actions in terms of collective intentions. This volume brings together ten new philosophical essays that address issues such as how individuals succeed in maintaining coordination throughout the performance of a collective action, whether groups can actually believe propositions or whether they merely accept them, and what kind of evidence, if any, disciplines such as cognitive science and semantics provide in support of irreducibly collective states. The theories of the Big Four of collective intentionality -- Michael Bratman, Raimo Tuomela, John Searle, and Margaret Gilbert -- and the Big Five of Social Ontology -- which in addition to the Big Four includes Philip Pettit -- play a central role in almost all of these essays. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including dynamical systems theory, economics, and psychology, the contributors develop existing theories, criticize them, or provide alternatives to them. Several essays challenge the idea that there is a straightforward dichotomy between individual and collective level rationality, and explore the interplay between these levels in order to shed new light on the alleged discontinuities between them. These contributions make abundantly clear that it is no longer an option simply to juxtapose analyses of individual and collective level phenomena and maintain that there is a discrepancy. Some go as far as arguing that on closer inspection the alleged discontinuities dissolve