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10The Theory of Judgment Aggregation: An Introductory ReviewLSE Choice Group Working Paper Series 6 (1). 2010.This paper provides an introductory review of the theory of judgment aggregation. It introduces the paradoxes of majority voting that originally motivated the field, explains several key results on the impossibility of propositionwise judgment aggregation, presents a pedagogical proof of one of those results, discusses escape routes from the impossibility and relates judgment aggregation to some other salient aggregation problems, such as preference aggregation, abstract aggregation and probabil…Read more
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6An epistemic free-riding problem?In Philip Catton & Cynthia Macdonald (eds.), Karl Popper: Critical Appraisals, Routledge. pp. 128-158. 2004.
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5Democracy and argument: tracking truth in complex social decisionsIn Anne van Aaken, Christian List & Christophe Luetge (eds.), Deliberation and Decision: Economics, Constitutional Theory, and Deliberative Democracy, . pp. 143-157. 2004.
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5The Condorcet Jury Theorem and Voter‐Specific TruthIn Brian P. McLaughlin & Hilary Kornblith (eds.), Goldman and His Critics, Wiley. 2016.This chapter explores the relationship between Goldman's thesis and the classical jury theorem. It identifies the minimal modification needed in order to recover Goldman's thesis in a Condorcetian framework. Goldman's thesis can be recast as a generalization of the classical Condorcet jury theorem. The central move needed to recover Goldman's thesis from a generalized jury theorem is to replace Condorcet's assumption that there is a single truth to be tracked with the assumption of multiple such…Read more
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1Group knowledge and group rationality: a judgment aggregation perspectiveIn Alvin I. Goldman & Dennis Whitcomb (eds.), Social Epistemology: Essential Readings, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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The theory of judgment aggregation: an introductory reviewThe Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics. 2010.This paper provides an introductory review of the theory of judgment aggregation. It introduces the paradoxes of majority voting that originally motivated the field, explains several key results on the impossibility of propositionwise judgment aggregation, presents a pedagogical proof of one of those results, discusses escape routes from the impossibility and relates judgment aggregation to some other salient aggregation problems, such as preference aggregation, abstract aggregation and probabil…Read more
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Group agency and supervenienceIn Jakob Hohwy & Jesper Kallestrup (eds.), Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Deliberation and Decision: Economics, Constitutional Theory and Deliberative Democracy (edited book)Ashgate. 2004.Deliberation and Decision explores ways of bridging the gap between two rival approaches to theorizing about democratic institutions: constitutional economics on the one hand and deliberative democracy on the other. The two approaches offer very different accounts of the functioning and legitimacy of democratic institutions. Although both highlight the importance of democratic consent, their accounts of such consent could hardly be more different. Constitutional economics models individuals as s…Read more
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And When NotIn Jennifer Lackey (ed.), Essays in Collective Epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2014.
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Lotteries, Knowledge, and Rational Belief. Essays on the Lottery Paradox. (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenMunich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy
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Munich, Bavaria, Germany