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Unanimous Consensus Against AGM?

Author(s) -

Stewart Rush T.

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

thought: a journal of philosophy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.429

H-Index - 8

ISSN - 2161-2234

DOI - 10.1002/tht3.255

Subject(s) - deliberation , consensus conference , consensus theory , simple (philosophy) , epistemology , belief revision , political science , psychology , computer science , philosophy , law , social change , politics , library science

Given the role consensus is supposed to play in the social aspects of inquiry and deliberation, it is important that we may always identify a consensus as the basis of joint inquiry and deliberation. However, it turns out that if we think of an agent revising her beliefs to reach a consensus, then, on the received view of belief revision, AGM belief revision theory, certain simple and compelling consensus positions are not always available.

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