Group rationality in scientific research / Husain Sarkar.

Author
Sarkar, Husain [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description
xv, 284 pages ; 24 cm

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    Subject(s)
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780521871136 (hardback)
    • 0521871131 (hardback)
    LCCN
    2006022359
    OCLC
    70673151
    RCP
    C - S
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