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Wiredu and Eze on consensual democracy and the question of consensual rationality
South African Journal of Philosophy, 2021The essay raises objections to Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze’s criticisms of Kwasi Wiredu’s notion of consensual rationality.
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Rational Consensus and Coherence Methods in Ethics
Grazer Philosophische Studien, 1991A traditional problem for the usage of coherentistic methods in epistemology is that of the possibility of relativity of different judgments. An attempt is offered to overcome this problem in the field of moral epistemology by the usage of the method of rational consensus (Keith Lehrer)
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Rational vs Byzantine Players in Consensus-based Blockchains
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2020We analyze from the game theory point of view Consensus-based blockchains when participants exhibit rational or Byzantine behavior. Our work is the first to model the Byzantine-consensus based blockchains as a committee coordination game. Our first contribution is to offer a game-theoretical methodology to analyze equilibrium interactions between ...
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1991
Abstract The foregoing four chapters have explored a very wide range of subjects, all connected with the use of expert opinion in science. Part II is devoted to assembling the mathematical modeling tools that will be needed in Part III. Before embarking on mathematical modeling, it is useful to gather some conclusions from the previous ...
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Abstract The foregoing four chapters have explored a very wide range of subjects, all connected with the use of expert opinion in science. Part II is devoted to assembling the mathematical modeling tools that will be needed in Part III. Before embarking on mathematical modeling, it is useful to gather some conclusions from the previous ...
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On the Rationality and Stability of a Minimal Consensus
2008Consensus is a central feature of normative constitutional thinking: If it is possible to interpret an institution as the reasonable result of voluntary agreement among those who have to live with this institution, then we have a prima facie legitimization of that institution.
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Rational consensual procedure: Argumentation or weighted averaging?
Synthese, 1986The following is a defense of Jurgen Habermas' argumentational consensual procedure against Keith Lehrer and Carl Wagner's weighted averaging consensual procedure (and, I tentatively claim, against any weighted averaging consensual procedure). The argument is twofold: if Lehrer and Wagner intend, implicity, to replace what is for Habermas the ...
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A Model of Rational Consensus in Science
1980In a series of papers, I articulated a model of rational consensus concerning questions of science and social policy.1 The problems we are discussing at this conference concern rationality in science and the application of scientific results. They fall within the domain of the model.
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Scandinavian Political Studies, 1998
Five examples of the origin, operation, and consequences of consensus democracy and closely related democratic forms (the politics of accommodation, consociational democracy, and power‐sharing democracy) illustrate the relative strengths of cultural, structural, functional, and rational‐choice explanations.
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Five examples of the origin, operation, and consequences of consensus democracy and closely related democratic forms (the politics of accommodation, consociational democracy, and power‐sharing democracy) illustrate the relative strengths of cultural, structural, functional, and rational‐choice explanations.
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Consensus on 'rational approach' to therapy of childhood febrile seizures
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1980Each year in the United States, 500,000 children between the ages of 3 months and 5 years will experience convulsions related to fever. The cause of these so-called febrile seizures remains unknown, and questions over how best to treat and prevent them are a source of confusion to both physicians and frightened parents.
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Conflict, Consensus, and Rationality in Environmental Planning
2003Abstract We all now recognize the importance of talk today. In policy settings, there are more and more calls for consultation, collaboration, and deliberation. This is particularly the case in environmental planning, with its disputes over genetically modified organisms, power plants, and new roads.
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