Constructivist and ecological modeling of group rationality

Gerald Gaus

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Abstract

These brief remarks highlight three aspects of Christian List and Philip Pettit's Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents that illustrate its constructivist nature: (i) its stress on the discursive dilemma as a primary challenge to group rationality and reasoning; (ii) its general though qualified support for premise-based decision-making as the preferred way to cope with the problems of judgment aggregation; and (iii) its account of rational agency and moral responsibility. The essay contrasts List and Pettit's constructivist analysis of group rationality with an ecological approach, inspired by social theorists such as F A. Hayek, Vernon L. Smith and Gerd Gigerenzer.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)245-254
Number of pages10
JournalEpisteme
Volume9
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • History and Philosophy of Science

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