Majority Rules? (Group Belief Aggregation)

2021 ◽  
pp. 200-204
Author(s):  
Kevin McCain
Keyword(s):  
Belief Aggregation ◽  
Group Belief ◽  
Majority Rules

Justified Group Belief, Group Knowledge and Being in a Position to Know

Episteme ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jakob Koscholke
Keyword(s):  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Group Knowledge ◽  
Group Belief ◽  
Group Member

Abstract Jennifer Lackey has recently presented a new and lucid analysis of the notion of justified group belief, i.e. a set of individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for a group to justifiedly believe some proposition. In this paper, however, I argue that the analysans she proposes is too narrow: one of the conditions she takes to be necessary for justified group belief is not necessary. To substantiate this claim, I present a potential counterexample to Lackey's analysis where a group knows and thus justifiedly believes some proposition but there is no single group member who actually believes that proposition. I close by defending the example against the objection that the group in question does not know but is at most in a position to know the target proposition.

Group Belief

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Ågotnes ◽  
Yì N. Wáng
Keyword(s):  
Group Belief

scholarly journals We Believe: Group Belief and the Liturgical use of Creeds

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Cockayne
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Joint Commitment ◽  
Corporate Worship ◽  
Group Belief ◽  
The Church

The recitation of creeds in corporate worship is widespread in the Christian tradition. Intuitively, the use of creeds captures the belief not only of the individuals reciting it, but of the Church as a whole. This paper seeks to provide a philosophical analysis of the meaning of the words, ‘We believe…’, in the context of the liturgical recitation of the Creed. Drawing from recent work in group ontology, I explore three recent accounts of group belief (summative accounts, joint commitment accounts, and functionalist accounts) and consider the potential of applying these to the group belief contained in the Creed.

scholarly journals The dynamics of public opinion under majority rules

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Ianni ◽  
Valentina Corradi
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Majority Rules

Self-Assembly of Chiral Propeller-like Supermolecules with Unusual “Sergeants-and-Soldiers” and “Majority-Rules” Effects

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 754-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Nie ◽  
Tian-Guang Zhan ◽  
Tian-You Zhou ◽  
Ze-Yun Xiao ◽  
Guo-Fang Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Majority Rules
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