Strengthening Deliberation in Business: Learning From Aristotle’s Ethics of Deliberation

JUdgeMent calls: the ethics oF edUcational deliberation

In all kinds of ways the idea of judgement has fallen under suspicion in recent times, and opportunities to exercise it have become fewer. It has suffered from being confused with judgmentalism, and from the assumption that it amounts to little more than subjective whim or preference. In the public services of the UK, and especially in education, it has been steadily eliminated by micromanageme...

Democratizing Animal Biotechnology Inquiry and Deliberation in Ethics and Governance

Animal biotechnology is controversial. It is one of the fastest-growing areas of technological innovation in the life sciences. Its rapid developments, ranging from new drug therapies to genetically engineered livestock, hold a great promise for a variety of fields of application. At the same time, the potentially high impact of these developments gives rise to numerous political and cultural c...

Sequential Deliberation

We present a dynamic model of sequential information acquisition by a heterogeneous committee. At each date agents decide whether to continue deliberation, generating costly information, or stop and take a binding vote yielding a decision. For homogeneous committees, the model is a reinterpretation of the classic Wald (1947) sequential testing of statistical hypotheses. In heterogeneous committ...

Modeling Deliberation in Teamwork

Cooperation in multi-agent systems essentially hinges on appropriate communication. This paper shows how to model communication in teamwork within TEAMLOG, the first multi-modal framework wholly capturing a methodology for working together. Taking off from the dialogue theory ofWalton and Krabbe, the paper focuses on deliberation, the main type of dialogue during team planning. We provide a fou...

“Talking It Out”: Deliberation With Others versus Deliberation Within