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Collective Decision-Making without Paradoxes: A Fusion Approach

Pigozzi, Gabriella (2005) Collective Decision-Making without Paradoxes: A Fusion Approach. [Preprint]

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The combination of individual judgments on logically interconnected propositions into a collective decision on the same propositions is called judgment aggregation. Literature in social choice and political theory has claimed that judgment aggregation raises serious concerns. For example, consider a set of premises and a conclusion in which the latter is logically equivalent to the former. When majority voting is applied to some propositions (the premises) it may give a different outcome than majority voting applied to another set of propositions (the conclusion). This problem is known as the doctrinal paradox. The doctrinal paradox is a serious problem since it is not clear whether a collective outcome exists in these cases, and if it does, what it is like. Moreover, the two suggested escape-routes from the paradox - the so-called premise-based procedure and the conclusion-based procedure - are not, as I will show, satisfactory methods for group decision-making. In this paper I introduce a new aggregation procedure inspired by an operator defined in artificial intelligence in order to merge knowledge bases. The result is that we do not need to worry about paradoxical outcomes, since these arise only when inconsistent collective judgments are not ruled out from the set of possible solutions.


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Pigozzi, Gabriella
Keywords: doctrinal paradox, judgment aggregation, belief fusion
Subjects: General Issues > Decision Theory
Depositing User: Gabriella Pigozzi
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2005
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 15:13
Item ID: 2322
Subjects: General Issues > Decision Theory
Date: June 2005
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2322

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