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Subject(s)

• Science—Philosophy [Browse]
• Reasoning [Browse]
• Group decision making [Browse]
• Group problem solving [Browse]
• Research—Psychological aspects [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-274) and indexes.

Contents

• The overview
• The plan of the book
• Group to individual, or vice vera?
• The Williams problem and utopias
• Group rationality : a unique problem
• Not an evolution problem
• Not a game theory problem
• Ramsey and group rationality
• The problem explored : Sen's way
• Consistency, ordering, and rationality
• Other notions of rationality and scientific welfare
• The sen-problems of group rationality
• The problem defined
• The skeptical view
• The democratic councils
• No covenant, a tale
• Multiply, multiply, multiply
• Positive arguments
• Negative arguments
• The route to the goal
• The subjectivist view I
• Individuals, group, and goals
• Divisions and discrepancies
• A society of ruthless egoists
• Theory choice
• Problems and a paradox
• The subjectivist view II
• Values and individuals
• Group transitions and risk distribution
• History, values, and representative groups
• Negotiations in the scientists' original position
• The city of man?
• The objectivist view
• Two objectivist problems
• Toward the best available method
• The best available method
• Is the single method sufficient?
• A new problem of demarcation
• Illustration : the herbalist tradition
• The scare of Saint-Simon
• Putnam, individual rationality, and Peirce's puzzle
• Democracy and group rationality
• Moral images, scientific images
• Method, historical knowledge, and reason
• Peirce's puzzle
• Ultimately, relativism?
• What lies at Bedrock
• The nine problems
• The problem, the common aim of science, and the basic structure
• The council, reasoning, and allegiance
• The universal law of rationality, the worth of science and utopias.

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ISBN

• 9780521871136 (hardback)
• 0521871131 (hardback)

LCCN

2006022359

OCLC

70673151

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