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Theory Choice and Social Choice: Kuhn versus Arrow [PDF]
Mind, 2011 Kuhn’s famous thesis that there is ‘no unique algorithm’ for choosing between rival scientific theories is analysed using the machinery of social choice theory. It is shown that the problem of theory choice as posed by Kuhn is formally identical to a standard social choice problem.
Samir Okasha
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, 1997 In this paper, we consider relationships between the collective preference and the non-cooperative game-theoretic approaches to positive political theory. In particular, we show that an apparently decisive difference between the two approaches - that in sufficiently complex environments (e.g.
David Austen‐Smith, Jeffrey S. Banks
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Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2008 This article critically analyzes new sociological approaches to the rational choice theory which - beyond examining political or economic practices - link the notion of instrumental rationality to social issues and themes.
Bruno Sciberras de Carvalho +1 more
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Interpersonal Comparability and Social Choice Theory
The Review of Economic Studies, 1980 At a general level, the information that may be required to enable a planner to judge which of two states is socially preferable may be of a diverse character. It is convenient to partition this information into the welfare and non-welfare characteristics of social states. Welfare characteristics consist of the individual welfares achieved in different
K. Roberts
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Symbolical Modeling of the Social Development - Combination Theory in the Evolutionary Choice
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2009 This article focuses on the methods for creating symbolic models of the social development on the basis of mathematical combinations theory, evolutionary theory and variants selection.
D A Misyurov
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A note on dictatorship, liberalism and the Pareto rule [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2023 This note presents a short comment and explanation of the approach and results presented in my previous papers published in this journal. I have divided the traditional social choice axioms, introduced by Kenneth Arrow and Amartya Sen, into two ...
Boričić Branislav
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Social Choice-based Explanations: An Approach to Enhancing Fairness and Consensus Aspects [PDF]
Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2020 Explanations are integrated into recommender systems to give users an insight into the recommendation generation process. Compared to single-user recommender systems, explanations in group recommender systems have further goals.
Thi Ngoc Trang Tran +4 more
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The Topology of Quantum Theory and Social Choice
Quantum Reports, 2022 Based on the axioms of quantum theory, we identify a class of topological singularities that encode a fundamental difference between classic and quantum probability, and explain quantum theory’s puzzles and phenomena in simple mathematical terms so they ...
Graciela Chichilnisky
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Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2023 This study establishes sufficient conditions for observing instances of Simpson's (data aggregation) Paradox under rank sum scoring (RSS), as used, e.g., in the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney (WMW) rank sum test.
Shane Sanders +2 more
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Online Service Evaluation Method Based on Slater Social Choice Theory [PDF]
Jisuanji gongcheng, 2020 Different users have different evaluation criteria and preferences for the same online service,making their ratings for services incomparable,so users cannot easily select suitable online services.To address the problem,this paper proposes an online ...
ZHU Mingqiang, FU Xiaodong, LIU Li, FENG Yong, LIU Lijun
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