Group Rationality in Scientific Research
Group Rationality in Scientific Research
Under what conditions is a group of scientists rational? How would rational scientists collectively agree to make their group more effective? What sorts of negotiations would occur among them and under what conditions? What effect would their final agreement have on science and society? These questions have been central to the philosophy of science for the last two decades. In this 2007 book, Husain Sarkar proposes answers to them by building on classical solutions - the skeptical view, two versions of the subjectivist view, the objectivist view, and the view of Hilary Putnam. Although he finds these solutions not completely adequate, Sarkar retrieves what is of value from them and also expropriates the arguments of John Rawls and Amartya Sen, in order to weave a richer, deeper, and more developed theory of group rationality.
- Discusses game theory and group rationality
- Addresses Peirce's puzzle and individual rationality
- Discusses science and utopia
Product details
April 2007Hardback
9780521871136
302 pages
229 × 152 × 21 mm
0.54kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. The overview
- 2. Group rationality: a unique problem
- 3. The problem explored: Sen's way
- 4. The skeptical view
- 5. The subjectivist view - I
- 6. The subjectivist view - II
- 7. The objectivist view
- 8. Putnam, individual rationality, and Peirce's puzzle
- 9. The nine problems.
