Cognition Beyond the Brain 2013
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5125-8_3
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Judgement Aggregation and Distributed Thinking

Abstract: In recent years, judgement aggregation has emerged as an important area of social choice theory. Judgement aggregation is concerned with aggregating sets of individual judgements over logically connected propositions into a set of collective judgements. It has been shown that even seemingly weak conditions on the aggregation function make it impossible to find functions that produce rational collective judgements from all possible rational individual judgements. This implies that the step from individual judge… Show more

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“…political parties, expert panels or court juries) cannot exclusively rely on the aggregation procedures of their members' decisions (e.g. majority voting) because different ways of implementing these procedures tend to produce inconsistent results (List & Pettit, 2002;Pettit, 2004;Spiekermann, 2010). Unfortunately, the space limitations of the present article do not permit a detailed review of this argument.…”
Section: From the Perspective Of Explanatory Social Research Interacting Individuals Should Be Conceived Of As The Only Causally Efficacimentioning
confidence: 85%
“…political parties, expert panels or court juries) cannot exclusively rely on the aggregation procedures of their members' decisions (e.g. majority voting) because different ways of implementing these procedures tend to produce inconsistent results (List & Pettit, 2002;Pettit, 2004;Spiekermann, 2010). Unfortunately, the space limitations of the present article do not permit a detailed review of this argument.…”
Section: From the Perspective Of Explanatory Social Research Interacting Individuals Should Be Conceived Of As The Only Causally Efficacimentioning
confidence: 85%