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Group rationality in scientific research

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Group rationality in scientific research/ Husain Sarkar.
Author:	Sarkar, Husain.
Published:	Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press, : 2007.,
Description:	xv, 284 p.
Subject:	Decision Making. -
Online resource:	Access by subscription
ISBN:	9780521871136 (hardback)

Group rationality in scientific research
Sarkar, Husain.

Group rationality in scientific research[electronic resource] /Husain Sarkar. - Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press,2007. - xv, 284 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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)

LCCN: 2006022359

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA718621bnbSubjects--Topical Terms:

72921
Decision Making.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: Q175.32.R45 / S37 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 507.2

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2007 I-292

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