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Rational Consensus in Science and Society - A Philosophical and Mathematical Study (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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Rational Consensus in Science and Society - A Philosophical and Mathematical Study (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 24
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TItis book is the joint project of a philosopher, Lehrer, and a
mathematician, Wagner. The book is, therefore, divided into a first
part written by Lehrer, which is primarily philosophical, and a
second part written by Wagner that is primarily formal. The authors
were, however, influenced by each other throughout. Our book
articulates a theory of rational consensus in science and society.
The theory is applied to politics, ethics, science, and language.
We begin our exposition with an elementary mathematical model of
consensus developed by Lehrer in a series of articles [1976a,
1976b, 1977, 1978]. Chapter 3 contains material from [1978]. Lehrer
formulated the elementary model when he was a Fellow of the Center
for Advanced Study in the Be havioral Sciences, Stanford, in 1973
with the invaluable mathematical assist of Kit Fine, Gerald Kramer
and Lionel McKenzie. In the summer of ance 1977, Lehrer and Wagner
met at the Center in a Summer Seminar on Freedom and Causality
supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Wagner read the
manuscript of Lehrer [1978] and subsequently solved some
mathematical problems of the elementary model. After discussions of
philosophical prob lems associated with that model, Wagner
developed the foundations for the extended model. These results
were reported in Wagner [1978, 1981a].
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