Individual inconsistency and aggregate rationality: Overcoming inconsistencies in expert judgment at the technical frontier

Kant on the Rationality of Moral Judgment

kant on the rationality of moral judgment

the paper deals with kant's conception of moral judgment. i start by criticizing a dominant interpretation of kant's practical rationality in its assertion that choosing, i.e. exercising judgment consists in adopting a maxim; and adopting a maxim is equivalent to acting on a principle, giving oneself the moral law (korsgaard). according to this view, the logical inescapability of choo...

Judgment aggregation without full rationality

Several recent results on the aggregation of judgments over logically connected propositions show that, under certain conditions, dictatorships are the only propositionwise aggregation functions generating fully rational (i.e., complete and consistent) collective judgments. A frequently mentioned route to avoid dictatorships is to allow incomplete collective judgments. We show that this route d...

Individual rationality and bargaining

We argue that Nash’s solution to the bargaining problem should be modified such that it will be based on a New Reference Point (NRP). Such a point is needed so that a player is not considered ‘individually rational’ if he accepts an agreement that provides him with a utility lower than the minimal utility he can derive from any Pareto optimal agreement, or if he accepts an agreement that provid...

Utilizing the Relationships Between Inconsistencies for more Effective Inconsistency Resolution

During software modeling, engineers are prone to making mistakes. State-of-the-art tool support can help detect these mistakes and point to inconsistencies in the model. They even can generate fixing actions for these inconsistencies. However state-of-the-art approaches process inconsistencies individually, assuming that each single inconsistency is a manifestation of an individual defect. This...