Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning by Christopher Mcmahon

Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning by Christopher Mcmahon

This book examines the issue of rational cooperation, especially cooperation between people with conflicting moral commitments. The first part considers how the two main aspects of cooperation - the choice by a group of a particular cooperative scheme and the decision by each member to contribute to that scheme - can be understood as guided by reason. The second part explores how the activity of reasoning itself can take a cooperative form. The book is distinctive in offering an account of what people can accomplish by reasoning together, of the role of deliberation in democratic decision making, and of the negotiation of the proper use of concepts. Presenting for the first time a detailed analysis of the general problem of cooperation and collective reasoning between people with different moral commitments, this book will be of particular interest to philosophers of the social sciences and to students in political science, sociology and economics.

'This book is one of the few systematic discussions of this phenomenon and it makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of ourselves as social agents' Deborah Tollefsen, Journal of Economics and Philosophy

Christopher McMahon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Reasonable Disagreement: A Theory of Political Morality, Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning, and Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management.

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ISBN 13	9780521011785
ISBN 10	0521011787
Title	Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning
Author	Christopher Mcmahon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2001-08-06
Number of pages	262
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